_Q._ In speaking of your meeting with the Joseph, you spoke of a conversation that took place between Captain Baker and Captain Meyer, after Captain Meyer came on board the Savannah. Do you not recollect that before that, when Captain Meyer was still on the deck of the Joseph, Captain Baker having called him to come on board the Savannah, and bring his papers, he asked Captain Baker by what authority he called on him to do that? _A._ I think this conversation occurred on board the Savannah. _Q._ The way you stated was this: that Captain Baker, on board the Savannah, stated to Captain Meyer that he must consider himself and crew prisoners, and his vessel a prize to the Confederate States? _A._ Yes, sir. _Q._ That was on board the Savannah? _A._ It was. _Q._ But do you not recollect that before that, when Captain Baker called on the Captain of the Joseph to come on board the Savannah, and bring his papers, Captain Meyer asked by what authority Captain Baker called on him to do that? _A._ I do not bear that in mind. I cannot vouch for that. I do not exactly recollect those words, I think the proposition was only made when he was on board the Savannah, but probably it might have been made before. _Q._ Did Captain Meyer bring his papers with him? _A._ I do not know. I did not see them. _Q._ You spoke of having met another vessel after that, and before you fell in with the Perry--I mean the Berkshire--you spoke of her as a British vessel? _A._ Yes. We did not speak her. _Q._ How did you ascertain the fact that she was a British vessel? _A._ We could tell a British vessel by the cut of her sails. _Q._ Was the Berkshire, so far as you observed, an armed or an unarmed vessel? _A._ I think she was an unarmed vessel. I considered she had been at some of the Southern ports, and had been ordered off. _Q._ She was a merchant vessel? _A._ Yes. _Q._ Which you, from your seamanlike knowledge, thought to be a British vessel? _A._ Yes; and I think that the words, "Berkshire, of Liverpool," were on her stern. _Q._ Did you read the name on the stern? _A._ I think I did. _Q._ You had fallen in with the Joseph, one unarmed vessel, and had made her a prize, and her crew prisoners? _A._ Yes. _Q._ You fell in with the Berkshire, another unarmed vessel, and passed under her stern and did not interfere with her. What was the reason of that difference? _A._ We had no right to interfere with her. _Q._ Why not? _A._ She was not an enemy of the Confederate Government. The policy we were going on, as I understood it, was to take Northern vessels. _Q._ Then you were not to seize all the vessels you met with? _A._ No; we were not to trouble any others but those that were enemies to the Confederate Government. That was the orders from headquarters. The Captain showed no disposition to trouble any other vessels. _Q._ When you were taken on board the Perry were you put in irons? _A._ Yes.