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Q-Now, what is that account ?
A.-For launches.
Q. Is that an account of your Company with Sham Iu ?
A. Yes.
Q. For the first 5 months of this year?
A. From the 1st moon to the end of the intercalary 4th moon.
Q. And the total amount is $169, some cents, is it not?
A. $169.61.
Q.-Now, Sham Iu apparently has a big launch account with you every year.
A. Yes, $100 to $200 every year.
Q. He is hiring those launches all the time, isn't he?
A. Yes.
Q. What does he use thosc launches for ?
A. What he said when he came to the shop was, to go to that wharf and wait for him, mostly foreigners who go.
Q. Well, do they go out to do business or do they simply go out for a picnic to have a little tea and things of that sort ?
A. Well, from the appearance it is sometimes for a trip, sometimes to meet the mail, and sometimes to see people off.
Q-But they dont appear to be very busy. They are not working. They are not attending to business, are they?
A. Sometimes it may be take ill people.
Q. And what sort of foreigners are they, do you know ?
A. I dont know. I am in the shop, and they go on board at the wharf.
Q. You dont happen to know if they are Government Inspectors, and people of that class, do you?
A.--I dont know certainly.
Q. Do you think they are.- -have you ever heard?
A. As to thinking, I am not present.
Q.-No, but I mean to say from what you have been told. You always talk about those things amongst yourselves, dont you?
A. The steam launch people when they come back,-they sometimes dont know who the people are.
Q.-But sometimes they do?
A-Sometimes when the launch is engaged, it is stated what it is wanted for.