9614. You also get an allotment note?-Yes. I leave it with Messrs. Hay, and then they supply my family with what they require.
9615. Does your wife live at Mid Yell when you are away?-Yes.
9616. How does she get her supplies from Lerwick?-She sends an order down to them, and they send her up what she requires by the steamer.
9617. Is that the only account you keep?-That the only account I keep with them; but I keep some accounts with other men.
9618. Do you keep an account with the merchant for whom you go to the ling fishing afterwards?-Yes.
9619. When you come home from Greenland you settle with Messrs. Hay at the Custom House?-Yes, as soon as I come home.
9620. You did not use to do that formerly?-No; we always used to settle in the office.
9621. When you settled in the office, the amount of your account was deducted from what you were to get?-Yes; but what money we had to get was paid down to us in cash.
9622. But now you get all your money except what you have got in the ship, and the first month's advance?-Yes.
9623. And with the balance you walk down to Hay & Co.'s office and pay off their account?-Yes.