668. What quantity had you?-I cannot exactly say. We had so much ling, so much cod, and so much saith.
669. You say he was in the same boat with you: were not all the boat's crew obliged to fish to Mr. Bruce?-All but that one man.
670. You separated your fish: did you just give Leslie his proportion of the whole fish in the boat?-Yes. We kept an account of his fish and of ours, and we gave him his share; and then he dried his part for himself.
671. How many men were in the boat?-Six.
672. Then, when you came to shore, you delivered five-sixths of the fish to Mr. Bruce, and Leslie got one sixth?-Yes; that was the way it generally went. Sometimes we would give all the fish to Mr. Bruce, and sometimes all to Laurence Leslie, and we kept an account; so that we could put the thing all right in the end.
673. Did you do that among yourselves?-Yes.
674. How did Leslie happen to go in that boat among Mr. Bruce's men?-Because he belonged to the place originally, and he agreed with us to go. He only left the place last year.
675. Has he not had a farm there for the last year?-No.
676. And therefore he did not consider himself bound to deliver his fish to Mr. Bruce?-Yes.
677. Who did he sell his fish to?-To Hay.