15,283. Did you settle for it at the end of the voyage?-Yes.
15,284. Did you manage to pay it up the first year?-Yes; and I had 5s. clear.
15,285. Did you ask on that occasion for payment of part of your earnings in cash?-Yes; when I came home I got the 5s. which I had clear. I had had all the rest in goods.
15,286. Did you not want to let part of the goods stand on an account?-No.
15,287. You wanted to pay it all up and to be clear?-Yes.
15,288. Did you continue to engage with Mr. Leask for some years after that?-For two years; and then I went to Mr. Tait.
15,289. Why did you go to him then?-Partly because I wanted a longer voyage; I wanted to go to Davis Straits.
15,290. Had Mr. Leask no ships going the long voyage that year?-Yes.
15,291. Could you not have got a berth from him?-Yes, if I had asked for it.
15,292. Why did you not ask for it?-I did not just incline.