356 OU;i;i'.sl*0NDENCE, ETC. 



men'e rations while they were on board the Dotterel, and I sent on 

 board the Dotterel fifteen pounds of pork and eighteen pounds of 

 bread, and then took my men on board again and proceeded on my 



Paul Johnson, Jr. 



Sworn to before — 



Ether Shepley. 



November 5, 1824. 



[Inclosure No. 3.] 



I, Hebberd Hunt, skipper of the schooner Galeon, of Lubec, Daniel 

 Joy, jr., Nehemiah Small, and John Hunt, hands on board, on oath, 

 testify and say: That we sailed in said schooner from Lubec on the 

 Lst day of July last, fitted out for the fisheries, and proceeded for the 

 fishing ground near Grand Menan Bank; being on the passage, and 

 six miles distant from the southwest head of the island of Great Menan, 

 the provincial revenue cutter, Mr. McMasters master, came down upon 

 us and fired upon us ; ordered us under his lee. We hove to under his 

 lee ; he sent his boat aboard ; demanded the papers, which were deliv- 

 ered; searched the vessel, and then dismissed us, saying we might pro- 

 ceed on to the Banks. We then proceeded to the Bank, and continued 

 to fish fifteen days on and near the Bank, from fifteen to eighteen 

 miles distant from the land; then, being in want of water, having lost 

 part of our water by injury accidentally happening to one of the 

 casks, and being also in want of wood, found it necessary to make a 

 port to obtain wood and water; ran for the island of Grand Menan, 

 and made it a little to the north of Woodward's Cove ; obtained our 

 water, and then proceeded to the mouth of Beale's Passage, to obtain 

 wood, being unable to obtain it where we did our water, and there 

 obtained a boat load of drift wood ; towards night, being below, eating 

 our only meal for the day, having neither wood nor water to cook 

 before, were boarded from the barge of the British armed brig 

 Dotterel; was asked where the vessel belonged ; our papers were de- 

 manded and delivered, and the vessel was immediately ordered under 

 way. The skipper stated to the master of the barge that he came only 

 for wood and water; that he had not fished any near the land, and 

 thought he had done nothing which he was not authorized to do by 

 the treaty. The master of the barge said, what is the use of talking 

 about the treaty — damn the treaty ; I did not come here to learn my 

 lesson — I learned it before I came. One of the hands, named Joy, 

 was threatened to have his mouth gagged with the pump bolt for con- 

 versing with some of the crew of the barge, and was sent on shore on 

 White Head island ; the vessel and remainder of the crew were carried 

 to St. Andrew's; the vessel was afterwards sold at St. Andrew's; the 

 crew were turned out of the vessel and everything detained but our 

 wearinL r apparel. The loss to the owners and crew has been as much 

 as one thousand dollars. We have been on board of the schooner dur- 

 ing all the time she was employed this season until taken, and do 

 positively aver that we have not fished at any time within more than 

 six milee of the land, and have not, at any other time, been within 

 any British harbor. 



We also testify that, about the middle of June last, being on the 

 gravelly ground about nine miles southeast of the island of Grand 



