750	JEANNETTE INQUIRY.
and he was a little sick and he sung out a couple of times. At last the Cap. thin sung out to me, "Nindem ann if you don't want to do your work, step one side." I says, Captain, Ihave always done mywork." Says he," I know you have, but you are not doing it now." Says I,"Yes; I am. You told me
not to say anything, and l haven't." At last he said tome, "What are ou going to do now?" and I says, "Launch the boat." He says, "All right" and we went ahead and got through without any more trouble at all
That was the only trouble I had with Captain De Long, and then this land.
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ing place where I had words with him and where I made the raft, where
I didn't think I was in fault in any shape or form, but he spoke to me very harshly, and I thought it was not right for him to do so. I did everything I possibly could, and I didn't think it was right for him to treat me the way he did. I wish to state that there was another charge made against Seaman Star. Captain De Long put it in his log-book, but didn't put it in his journal. One morning when we were trying to cross a creek a lot of men got overboard. Melville called them a lot of damned fools, and told them it was mostly their own fault that they got over-board, and Star just simply spoke up and said, "Mr. Melville, we are not a lot of damned fools, and it wasn't our fault that we got overboard," and it seems that didn't suit Mr. Melville very well, and when Star threw out these soles Melville went for him. But Captain De Long didn't state anything of that kind in his journal as far as I know. And, if I ain't mistaken, he states in his journal that the soles were laying ou the stern-sheets flat in the boat, and that by hauling or dragging the boat these soles were jammed on top the sleeping-bag	
Q. (Interposing.) That has been told over and over and over again.—A. No, sir; not this point.
Q. About throwing the soles away ?—A. The charge is that the soles were lying in the bottom of the boat and not on Star's sleeping-bag, and he threw away these soles; that the dragging of the boat over the ice had thrown the soles over ou his sleeping-bag--
Mr. ARNOUx (interposing). I submit he has not the right to express his opinion in any way in that ridiculously small matter.
The WITNESS. I don't consider it a small matter where a man is charged so as to bring him before a court-martial.
Mr. ARNOUx. I submit if he knows the fact and if he saw anybody lay them on the sleeping bag he can state it, but for him to say he does not believe it happened so it is not competent.
The. WITNESS. I want to say that Star in no manner, shape, or form committed himself against Captain De Long. Captain De Long was his superior officer, and was the only man that Star had to go to and state his case. But every time Star opened his mouth to explain matters, before he got a second word out of his mouth, Captain De Long said, "Shut up." He told him that three times, and Star was trying to tell his case, and yet Captain De Long was his commanding officer and he had no other person to go. It was Captain De Long's place to listen to that man. There was no other person for him to go to except Cap-lain De Long. Then I wish to state that Mr. Melville, right in Bulun, and on November 3, when I explained things to him about traveling and everything else, and I was suffering, told me that he didn't give a damn for Captain De Long, but he felt sorry for all the rest of the poor men that lie had dragged along with him to their gi ayes in starvation. I forget exactly the words he used—that he didn't give a snap for Captain De Long, and he stated the same thing to Bartlett as he stated to me.
The CHAIRMAN. You need not state that.