Q. 46 What do you mean?

A. It was Just turned around. The white men were short of groceries and the Chinese had lots.

Q. 47 Your suggestion to that appears to be tolerably correct. The 17th or 18th of October?

A. Around that.

Q. 48 The white men were out of food?

A. Yes.

Q. 49 So far as you know during that time did the Chinese have plenty?

A. Yes, you bet.

Q. 50 When did they start going out of supplies..... I was trying to get, when do you suggest the Chinese boys started going short?

A. The shipments were getting farther apart in the latter part of November, I guess. At least it seemed that way.

Q. 51 We'll come around to the 6th of November. You remember? All I want to do is to get the actual facts? On the 6th of November, Sam Noveland, Abrahamson, Petersen and Lowe -- who were short of supplies then?

A. The white fellows

Q. 52 Weren't the Chinese, as I understand at, supposed to have hid their goods when the Constables were there, around that date?

A. I don't know. They took out a bout $125.00 worth of groceries. Mr. Colquonn told me that himself. I left there myself tor Vancouver go ae to got tho follows

Rood or get thom out. In the mean time they came out than-

selves. I brought olquohm baok to the Camp to get th ese our.ell ows out. Wo didn It ha ve a boat then, In the

moar-tane thoo wm supposed to bo 35. Oo worth ot oe otob

vazon out about th t ti mo. Maybe King Paun can tell you. 2.53 What would be the idea of taldng thom out?

I was tolling him and trying to tell him.He said they

were hidden; that the se people went in to inv egtigato

I cannot swear as to whether the Chinese had or hadntt

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