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his hat, but the Captain of the Lady banning would not let him. Prisoner told me where his hat was, and I went and fetched it. - He asked me also to look after his clothes, - The Doctor came about past 9, I was up with Davis until about 3 o'clock in the morning, I saw him again between 5 and 6,- Deceased told me he should die, and gave me directions where to find his mother, who was very poor, - I had given him some money, and he gave it me in a handkerchief, when he went ashore he did not know how much there was, saying he could not see for some prayers to him, the Chaplain, He wished to see the rest of his shipmates to bid good bye to them. - He died about 5 P.M. on the 18th - Davis was a very quiet, steady man, not at all addicted to drink. -
Cross examined. – I have been in the ship 24½ Years. No quarrel to my knowledge between Davis and Prisoner, - Prisoner was not at all a quarrelsome man. Prisoner was a peculiar man, different from any man that I ever sailed with - as good a sailor as any.