9042. And he would get goods in payment for his winter fishing?-He has not been at the winter fishing this year.
9043. Or at the spring fishing last year?-He was at the spring fishing for Mr. Thomas Williamson.
9044. What men have you engaged for the rising year?-The engagement has been made partly with my partner in North Yell, and I don't know the names of them yet.
9045. But you know which men have opened accounts with you from North Yell?-Yes. There is Charles More, Gutcher, North Yell; he has got supplies to the amount of 19s. 8d.; and Thomas Brown, who has got supplies to the amount of 17s.
9046. Are these men bound to you now by written engagement?- No, it is merely verbal. Their boat's crew is made up.
9047. Who is your partner in North Yell?-Arthur Nicholson; he has a shop of his own at Gutcher.
9048. Has he boats of his own besides those he has in company with you?-No; but we have never been rightly in company. He has been doing my work in North Yell, and getting a fee for it, and our fish have been thrown together, and sold together.
9049. Is this [showing] the only book you keep?-It is the only book I keep for accounts. I keep an invoice-book and it fish-book also.
9050. Do you keep a day-book?-I keep a book for scrawling things into, until they are posted up in the ledger.
9051. Do you buy kelp?-No.