11,936. Have they an arrangement peculiar to themselves about their fish?-No, there is no peculiar arrangement. Their fish have always been under their own command, and I could not sell them without their consent, and I have lost considerably by that.
11,937. In selling their fish do you act as their agent?-Yes.
11,938. Do you charge a commission for that?-I never had so much good sense as to ask a commission; I did it for nothing.
11,939. You sold them for them, and I suppose they took a quantity of goods from you when they wanted them?-Yes. They took lines and hooks, and bread and clothes, and such things as they required.
11,940. Did they get all their supplies from you?-I think they got the most part of them from me.
11,941. How many people live at Havera?-I think there are four families, but I am not sure.
11,942. Do the other people on Mr. Bruce's estate who fish for you, and whose rent you pay, deal entirely in your shop for their supplies?-I think the most part of them do.
11,943. Is that one reason why you pay their rents for them?-I suppose so.
11,944. Do you find that these men are generally in your debt at settlement?-Only some of them. There are some of the men who have always plenty of money to get, but there are others who have commonly been behind.
11,945. Are more than one half of them commonly behind?-No. There are more than one half of them who always have money to get.