14,022. How do you sell your eggs?-We sell them mostly to Mr. Sutherland, and get small stores for them at the time, such as tea or sugar, or anything we want. They do not go into the account.
14,023. The eggs are never paid for in cash?-No; but I have no doubt we would get cash for them if we asked it.
14,024. But you always choose to take tea or sugar?-Yes, just the things we are needing.
14,025. Is that the way in which all the people in your neighbourhood do with their eggs?-I cannot say it is the way with the whole of them. Perhaps some of them may take them to other places for anything they want; but I believe most of the people dispose of them in that way to Mr. Sutherland.
14,026. Do you know Robert Murray at Swinister-Yes.
14,027. He is a merchant there, and keeps a shop?-Yes.
14,028. Does he sometimes buy fish?-He buys small fish, like what are called hand-line fish, or fish caught with lines near the shore; but I cannot say whether he has the summer time or not. He may have, for anything I know.
14,029. Does he sometimes engage people to fish for him in the winter or spring or summer?-I don't know.
14,030. Do you know whether he once engaged a [Page 350] man named Peter Williamson?-I heard so. I heard that Williamson was bargained to fish to Robert Murray, and that Mr Robertson would not allow him to do so. I never asked Mr Robertson about that.
14,031. Are you a relation of Mr Robertson?-I am his cousin.