661. Can you tell now the proceeds of your last summer's fishing?- We will be paid the price that has been paid already in the country. 662. But you don't know yet what you are to get?-No; Mr. Bruce said at the commencement that he would give us the currency of the country. Now Mr. Bruce is one of the greatest fish-dealers in the country, and of course he has it so far in his power to make the currency; but it is likely we will get the same as the other merchants are paying. 663. Then, in speaking of the sum which Leslie has earned more than you, you are calculating in this way: you know the price which other merchants have paid, and you know the quantity you have delivered?-Yes; and we know in that way what the amount will be. 664. What do you think the amount of your take will be?-About £18. 665. You think your fishing for the whole of last season will be £18, at the prices which are going in Lerwick?-Yes. 666. And you know how much Laurence Leslie has got?-Yes. 667. Had he about the same quantity of fish as you-Yes; he had the same quantity divided green. 668. What quantity had you?-I cannot exactly say. We had so much ling, so much cod, and so much saith. 669. You say he was in the same boat with you: were not all the boat's crew obliged to fish to Mr. Bruce?-All but that one man. 670. You separated your fish: did you just give Leslie his proportion of the whole fish in the boat?-Yes. We kept an account of his fish and of ours, and we gave him his share; and then he dried his part for himself. 671. How many men were in the boat?-Six. 672. Then, when you came to shore, you delivered five-sixths of the fish to Mr. Bruce, and Leslie got one sixth?-Yes; that was the way it generally went. Sometimes we would give all the fish to Mr. Bruce, and sometimes all to Laurence Leslie, and we kept an account; so that we could put the thing all right in the end. 673. Did you do that among yourselves?-Yes. 674. How did Leslie happen to go in that boat among Mr. Bruce's men?-Because he belonged to the place originally, and he agreed with us to go. He only left the place last year. 675. Has he not had a farm there for the last year?-No. 676. And therefore he did not consider himself bound to deliver his fish to Mr. Bruce?-Yes. 677. Who did he sell his fish to?-To Hay. 678. Were they cured when he sold them?-Yes. Mr. Bruce would not allow him to weigh his fish on his scales and weights, because he would not give them to him. 679. Who forbade him?-Mr. Bruce's factor. 680. Was that Mr. Irvine?-It was not Mr. Irvine; it was the man who was there in his place. I recollect that one day we were a good deal put about in consequence of that. It was a very coarse day at the fishing, and Hay & Co. did not have weights at the place, and Mr. Bruce's man would not allow us to weigh the fish on his weights.