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| − | Q. 46 What do you mean?
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| − | A. It was just turned around. The white men were short of groceries and the Chinese had lots.
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| − | Q. 47 Your suggestion to that appears to be tolerably correct. The 17th or 18th of October?
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| − | A. Around that.
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| − | Q. 48 The white men were out of food?
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| − | A. Yes.
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| − | Q. 49 So far as you know during that time did the Chinese have plenty?
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| − | A. Yes, you bet.
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| − | Q. 50 When did they start going short of supplies.... I was trying to get, when do you suggest the Chinese boys started going short?
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| − | A. The shipments were getting farther apart in the latter part of November, I guess. At least it seemed that way.
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| − | 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?
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| − | A. The white fellows
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| − | Q. 52 Weren't the Chinese, as i understand it, supposed to have hid their goods when the Constables were there, around that date?
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| − | A. I don't know. They took out about $125.00 worth of groceries. Mr. Colquohn told me that himself. I left there myself for Vancouver so as to get the fellows food or get them out. In the meantime they came out themselves. I brought Colquohn back to the Camp to get these four fellows out. We didn't have a boat then. In the mean-time there was supposed to be $125.00 worth of groceries taken out about that time. Maybe King Faun can tell you.
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| − | Q. 53 What would be the idea of taking them out?
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| − | A. I was telling him and trying to tell him. He said they were hidden; that these people went in to investigate. I cannot swear as to whether the Chinese had or hadn't
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