Q. But do you not recollect that before that, when Captain Baker called on the Captain of the Joseph to come on board the Savannah, and bring his papers, Captain Meyer asked by what authority Captain Baker called on him to do that?
A. I do not bear that in mind. I cannot vouch for that. I do not exactly recollect those words, I think the proposition was only made when he was on board the Savannah, but probably it might have been made before.
Q. Did Captain Meyer bring his papers with him?
A. I do not know. I did not see them.
Q. You spoke of having met another vessel after that, and before you fell in with the Perry—I mean the Berkshire—you spoke of her as a British vessel?
A. Yes. We did not speak her.
Q. How did you ascertain the fact that she was a British vessel?
A. We could tell a British vessel by the cut of her sails.
Q. Was the Berkshire, so far as you observed, an armed or an unarmed vessel?
A. I think she was an unarmed vessel. I considered she had been at some of the Southern ports, and had been ordered off.