10,794. Do you think you could manage to get out to the deep sea with such a boat as that in winter?-Yes, we could manage to get there; but the difficulty would be to manage the sailing in of our lines. The way we do just now is to haul them in.
10,795. You mean the difficulty is to take in your lines with the boat sailing?-Yes; the same as they do on the Scotch coast.
10,796. Your practice in Shetland is to haul in your lines while rowing, and never to haul them in while sailing?-Yes; we sometimes set them while sailing.
10,797. But you believe you could learn to haul them in while sailing also?-Yes.
10,798. Are the lines you use of the same kind and the same length as are used on the east coast?-The lines we use are 42 fathoms to the length of line, and we use hundred of these lines.
10,799. Is it long since you were at the whaling?-I think the last year I was there was 1864.
10,800. How were you engaged that year?-I was engaged in Mr. Tait's office, in Lerwick.
10,801. Did you get your outfit from him?-I got my advance; I did not need an outfit.
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10,802. Had you been there before?-Yes, often.