738. If you choose, you can get your provisions elsewhere; and if you choose to get them elsewhere, you will get all your money at the end of the season?-Yes, if we had any over; but if we had no money over, of course the merchant from whom we had to get our goods would have to want.
Lerwick, January 2, 1872, LAURENCE LESLIE, examined.
739. You are now a fisherman in Lerwick?-Yes.
740. You formerly lived at Dunrossness?-Yes.
741. And you had a piece of ground from Mr. Bruce of Sumburgh?-Yes.
742. You have been present during the examination of the previous witness, and heard the whole of his examination?-Yes.
743. Do you concur in that part of it which referred to yourself with regard to the quantity of fish you got last season?-I do.
744. What may be the total price you got for your cured fish?-We had three different kinds of fish-saith, cod, and ling. We got 12s. per cwt. for saith, I think 18s. for cod, and 20s. for ling, dried.
745. The quantity which you had to sell was the same when weighed green as that which Laurence Mail delivered to Mr. Bruce?-Of course.
746. You lived in Dunrossness for a number of years?-Yes.