6796. Did you ever ask for a pass-book?-I have asked for copies of my account.
6797. Did you get them?-At one time I got a copy of my account for nine years.
6798. Had your debt been running on increasing for nine years?- It was always increasing.
6799. Have you got these accounts here, or are they in your lawyer's hands?-They are in Mr. Spence's hands in Lerwick.
6800. How often did you ask for them before you got the accounts for the nine years?-I asked for them when I was summoned.
6801. Had you ever asked for them before?-Yes; I had asked for them sometimes, but not every year.
6802. Did you always get them when you asked for them?-No; I got none until I got the whole at one time.
6803. Why did you not get them when you asked for them?-I don't know; I never was refused them, but I did not get them.
6804. Were you just put off?-Yes.
6805. Did you fish for Mr. Anderson all the time these accounts were running up?-Yes. The commencement of the debt was when I lost a fleet of lines by bad weather. There might have been a little due before that, but it was very little.