16,262. She had got the allotment note that year herself?-Yes.
16,263. You had sent it to her before you went away?-Yes.
16,264. Then at that time you had not run up a large account with the agent?-Not very much.
16,265. Had you any account with the agent that year at all?-I don't remember; I don't think it was very much.
16,266. There might have been a little for some articles of outfit, perhaps?-Perhaps there was.
16,267. When you settle at the Custom House, are you ever told by the agent's clerk who goes up to hand [Page 412] you the money, that he expects you down at the shop to settle your account there?-Yes; but I usually go first to the shop and see what my account with the agent there is, and then I pay him immediately afterwards, either at the Custom House or at the shop, as soon as I am paid myself.
16,268. Are you expected to go down and pay your account at once?-Yes.
16,269. Are you ever spoken to about going at once?-No, I have never been told to go at once; but I understand it is my business to pay it at once, as long as I am able to do it.
16,270. Is it expected that the men going on a Greenland voyage are to take their supplies, partly at least, from the agent's shop?-I don't know if it is expected or not. I suppose it is expected, but a man may buy his outfit wherever he pleases.
16,271. Did you ever know a man buying it elsewhere than at the agent's shop?-I have bought some articles elsewhere myself.