get paid off, and they told me they were going to settle the salvage by arbitration??????an offer of 5l. was never made to me as my share??????no offer was made to me by anybody before I went to Pritchard & Sons??????I knew from the other men that they had gone to Oldershaw's??????I did not know that as early as February, 1868??????I did not know that the affidavit I was to make was an affidavit i