_A._ About a mile and a half or two miles; I could see it with the spy-glass very plainly. _Q._ Can you give us the size of the gun? _A._ Not exactly; I believe it was an old eighteen pound cannonade. _Q._ How was it mounted? _A._ On a kind of sliding gutter, which goes on an iron pivot: it was on a round platform on deck, so that it could be hauled round and round. _Q._ So that it could be pointed in any direction? _A._ Yes, in any direction. After she came up alongside of me, Captain Baker asked me where I was from, and where bound, and ordered me with my boat and papers on board his vessel. I asked him by what authority he ordered me on board, and he said, by authority of the Confederate States. I lowered my boat and went on board with two of my men. When I got alongside, Captain Baker helped me over the bulwarks, or fence, and said he was sorry to take my vessel, but he had to retaliate, because the North had been making war upon them. I told him that that was all right, but that he ought to do it under his own flag. He then hoisted his own flag, and ordered a boat's crew to go on board the brig. Some of them afterwards returned, leaving six on board the brig. _Q._ Did Captain Baker take your papers? _A._ Yes. _Q._ Do you recognize Captain Baker in court? _A._ Yes. As soon as they secured my crew they hauled the brig on the other tack, and stood into the westward, with the privateer in company. Captain Baker desired me to ask my mate to take the sun, as he had a chronometer on board, and the privateer had not. At 3 o'clock the privateer stood back to find out the longitude; while so doing she got astern of the brig, and about that time the brig Perry hove in sight, steering southward and eastward. When they saw the brig Perry they hauled the privateer more on the wind, because she would go a point or two nearer to the wind than the brig Joseph, so as to cut off the Perry if they could. They went aloft a good deal with opera glasses, to find out what she was, and they made her out to be a merchant vessel, as they thought. Then they saw the Perry's quarter boats, and rather mistrusted her. They backed ship and stood the same as the Perry. The Perry then set gallant stern-sail, and kept her more free, because she got the weather-gauge of the privateer. _Q._ At the time of the capture of the Joseph by the Savannah did you observe all the crew, and in what attitude they were on deck? _A._ I saw them working around the gun and hauling at it. Whether it was loaded or not, I could not say. _Q._ Were any of the men armed? _A._ None at that time that I know of; but after I went on board I saw them armed with a kind of cutlass, and old-fashioned boarding-pistols; and they had muskets with bayonets on. _Q._ At the time you left your vessel for the Savannah, in what attitude were the men on board the Savannah? _A._ They were all around on deck. Perhaps half of them were armed. _Q._ How was the gun pointed?