4617. Is it kept by the shopkeeper there?-It is kept by Isbister. I took it back and forward every time I got goods, and had them entered there. That book is for 1868.
4618. I see it is for Hans Leslie, and not for George Leslie. Is your father's name Hans?-Yes.
4619. This book only comes down to February 1869. Have you not kept a pass-book since then?-Yes; but it is not settled yet.
4620. Is that account from March 1867 to February 1869 [showing] not settled?-Yes, it is settled; but the account for 1870 is not settled yet. I have it in another pass-book, because this one had fallen aside.
4621. And you have now another one in the hands of the shopkeeper?-Yes.
4622. Do you know the prices which were charged against you for goods in 1870?-No. I have seen them in the pass-book when I had it at home; but don't remember what they were.
4623. But the settlement for 1870 is past?-Yes; it was 1871 I was thinking of.
4624. But there is nothing in this book for 1870?-No. This [producing another book] is the book for 1870 up till the settlement of 1871.
4625. Have you no pass-book in your possession later than that?- No.
4626. Show me some of the things in that book which are charged higher to you than you could have got them elsewhere?-I say that tea and cotton are generally charged higher. I have had very little cotton from that shop, but I have asked the prices, and found them much higher than at Henderson's, so that I took what cotton I wanted from Henderson's shop, and not from the shop at Boddam.