13,594. But most of your supplies you get elsewhere-at Scalloway or Lerwick?-Yes.
13,595. Do all the men in your vessel keep accounts at Harrison & Son's, and get their supplies there?-Yes.
13,596. You purchase your own lines and hooks for Faroe?-Yes.
A lead of lines for each man will cost about 11s.
13,597. Is that the only fishing expense that you have?-Yes; but perhaps we may have two leads of lines in one summer.
13,598. Do you always purchase them from the owners?-Yes; or they are put on board the vessel, and the men take them as they require them. The master keeps an account of that.
13,599. How do you do on the Iceland voyage for these fishing supplies?-The men pay hire for their lines on the Iceland voyage.
13,600. Then the lines in that case are at the owners risk?-Yes.
13,601. If they are lost, do the owners bear the loss?-The men have to pay for them if they lose them, and if they return them they only pay hire for them.
Lerwick, January 27, 1872, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, recalled.
13,602. You have handed in an agreement for the year 1871 with the crew of the 'Royal Tar?'-Yes.