222	JEANNETTE INQUIRY.

Q. And you thought it was not dignified for him to answer you in such a way ?—A. I thought he might have handed it to me as a friend; that he should have pushed it along a little nearer to me.
Q. But I say what was the part that` constituted an indignity When he spoke that way, giving me to understand, there it was, I could take it or leave it.
Q. You thought it was not dignified for him to answer you altogether in that style?—A. I do not know about the special word dignified. I do not think it was friendly, to say the least of it.
Q. You said on your direct examination that Bartlett treated you in a way you thought was not as dignified as it might have been ? Did you mean to use that word dignified ?—A. I do not know that I attach any special meaning to that word other than I thought he might have been more courteous.
Q. Then you did not mean to use the word dignified in that connectiou ?—A. No; I do not know as I would. I would use the word courteous.
Q. Who stated to you that entering your name as seaman on the books of the ship was a mere matter of form ?—A. I think Lieutenant De Long at the time be did so in San Francisco.
Q. Who was present at that time?—A. I think there was a gentle-man in his room, but I do not remember that any one else was present.
Q. Can you give the exact conversation that you had with him ou the subject?—A. I could not, sir.
Q. Any more than you have given ?—A. No, sir; I could not.
Q. When was it that you first formed the opinion that Mr. Melville
did not like you ?—A. After the beginning, perhaps, of the year 1880. Q. Was that before the first difficulty that you had with him, or after-
wards, or at the time of it ?—A. It was before.
Q. Can you sustain your opinion by giving any fact whatever on which to found it?—A. I do not know as I can, any more than natural instinct. The whole aft mess of the ship seemed to divide off.
Q. No, no. We are confining ourselves to one man—your relations to Mr. Melville.—A. I had very little direct relations with Mr. Melville.
Q. When did he first commence to spit his spite out against you?—A. I remember that I used to carry a hunting knife in the leg of my moccasin, and I occasionally would hear the words, "Take care; cut you deep ; razor in his boot."
Q. Is that what you call spitting his spite out against you?—A. That was the beginning of it.
Q. But, I say, is that what you alluded to when you said he spit his spite out against you?—A. There might not have been much spite about that. The more direct spite was at the time of that difference we had there on the Lena delta, to which the word spite would more properly apply.
Q. Now, then, if I understand you at present, he never did spit out any spite against you until that affair-at the delta ?—A. I do not know that he did—any special spite.
Q. When was it that he first commenced to sit on you?—A. Date it from the time of the Lena diver affair. Understand, in fact, the most of the practical side of the question began there, as I remember.
Q. So, then, your unpleasant feeling toward Mr. Melville began when you were on the Lena delta; is that correct s—A. No. You might say that I felt unpleasantly, not being, as I felt, righted in reference to that little matter between myself and Bartlett, further back.
Q. Did that rankle in your mind against Mr. Melville all the time, so