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Mount Desert, and fished there four or five weeks, and then returned 

 to Dennysville and -washed out our fish, and eight days after sailed 

 again, and went on to Marblehead Bank, so called, and began to fish, 

 the island of Grand Menan bearing north northeast, eighteen leagues 

 distant, and continued to fish there six or eight days; then stood into 

 Grand Menan Bank, being five or six leagues distant from the island, 

 and anchored, and laid to, being Sunday, and all turned in. Soon the 

 Brig Dotterel came upon us, and sent a boat with five men on board, 

 with cutlasses drawn; inquired for Martin, the man who had come 

 away with us, and continued to fish with us. I told him I did not 

 know ; believed he had gone to Boston ; asked me if I was skipper of 

 the vessel, and answered I was in place of one; asked for the papers, 

 and I declined delivering them; told him they had one set of her 

 papers ; was told to get into the boat and go on board the brig, and did 

 so. They then got the Pilgrim under way; the captain of the Dot- 

 terel asked my name; was told it; said he had got a pretty good his- 

 tory of my character; told him I had not robbed anybody, or killed 

 any one, or stole anything; he asked for Martin; was told I did not 

 know ; believed he had gone to Boston ; then said to him, if you are 

 going to keep the vessel, if you will put me on board one of these 

 fishermen, that I may go home, I shall be much obliged to you. 

 Home ! said he ; yes, if you want to go home, I will carry you home to 

 Halifax, where I will have you tried and hung. I asked him to let 

 me go on board the Pilgrim and get my clothes. He said no, damn 

 you, you shan't have any clothes; asked again for my clothes, and was 

 permitted to go and get them ; asked him if he was to give me any- 

 thing to eat; he said no; asked him if I should fetch some provisions 

 from my own vessel, and how much; he said fetch a week's provision; 

 went aboard the Pilgrim, and was putting up some provision, when 

 Jones, who was on board, and had command of the Pilgrim, called me 

 up ; told him the captain told me to get some provision, but he would 

 not permit me to get more than twelve or fourteen biscuit, and four or 

 five pounds of pork ; was ordered to get into the boat and go on board 

 the brig. By this time they had searched in the hold of the vessel, 

 and found Martin hid there, and put him in the boat. When we went 

 on board the brig, found five or six marines, with muskets and fixed 

 bayonets. They took Martin and carried him below. I was sent aft, 

 and kept there, guarded by marines, till 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening. 

 Soon after, was sent down the after hatchway, and shackles put upon 

 n iv ankles, and a large bar of iron put through them and fastened to 

 the deck, and an old sail, with the ropes in it, given me to lie on; and 

 thus I was kept four days, then took out and carried me, under guard, 

 upon the quarter deck, where I found the officers paraded. Captain 

 charged me with threatening their men's lives, and threatening to 

 throw them overboard; I told him I had done no such thing; he said 

 Paine (who was the man on board the Pilgrim that came up with the 

 swords) had told him so, and that I would have done so, unless I had 

 been prevented by Scott, one of my own men. I told him I could not 

 have used a brother better than I did Paine. Captain then said if I 

 would tell him where the Ruby and Reindeer were he would let me go 

 with i sel. Told him I did not know, and if I did, would not 



teU him. We had now arrived at Halifax; asked the captain what he 

 should do with me; he said I should be carried to St. John's and 



