Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London / A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.

by Pedro de Zulueta; William Brodie Gurney

Did you mark them with chalk, or what?—I razed them with a proper razing iron.

Razing is scratching a mark?—Yes.

What did you do with them?—Took the hoops from them and put them together, and put them in close packs as we do sugar-casks.

You emptied the water?—Yes, emptied the water and took the casks to pieces.

You put the parts of the casks together as correctly as you could, to enable them to be put together again?—Yes.

Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. Where did you leave them?—I left them stowed in the ballast, after the ballast had been taken out and limbers cleared out of the bottom of the vessel and stowed them on the top of the ballast in packs.

Mr. Justice Maule. Each cask in a pack?—Yes, in a separate pack.

Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. Did you do any thing with the smaller ones?—Yes, some of them, and others I repaired for water for the voyage for the present crew.

Mr. Justice Maule. You did the same with some of the smaller ones, and repaired others for water for the crew?—Yes, just so.

Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. How long did it take you to do this?—About three weeks; from the 8th of September to the 19th we were positively engaged entirely in that work.