AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION 



Q. Yes. A. I could not tell you how often, but I have leen tln-rv a 

 number of times. 



Q. Were you in there as one of a crew ? A. I went in DM a hand ; ye*. 

 sir. 



Q. How were you paid ? Did you go on shares or by the month ! 

 A. I went on shares. 



Q. Now, do you mean that you were in there every year or neatly 

 every year from the time you were thirteen to the year IS 17 ! A. No"; 

 not every year. There were about thirteen years I was all over tho 

 world. Sometimes I would be home for a year or two. 



Q. When was that? A. I could not give the date. 



Q. Was it after you were a skipper in 1847 or before it T A. It w,w 

 after I was a skipper that I went away. 



Q. Now, how often were you in the bay before the year 1847 ? A. I 

 could not state how often 1 was there. I venture to say 1 was there 

 two-thirds of the years from the time I began going until I was skip|>or. 



Q. You began to go when you were thirteen, and went almost every 

 year? A. No; not almost every year. 



Q. Did you say two-thirds of the years? A. I didn't say just two 

 thirds ; I might have been there two-thirds of the years. 



Q. You ought to know. A. I doirt know because I didn't keep any 

 record. 



Q. Is your memory bad ? A. No ; but it -ill not allow me to recol- 

 lect from the time I was thirteen to fifty-five. 



Q. You do recollect that you were thirteen years old when you com- 

 menced ? A. Yes. 



Q. And you recollect when you began as skipper ?--A. I was nine 

 years old when I began to go fishing. 



Q. Did you go into the bay then ? A. No ; I was thirteen years old 

 when I went into the bay. 



Q. You went as a hand, and got your share ! A. Yes. 



Q. Was it a profitable business ? A. Well, 1 don't know how profit 

 able it was then. 



Q. Did it pay you well? A. I don't know; I was at work far ray 

 father, and he took my earnings. 



Q. Did he tell you it was a good business ! A. No ; he didn't want 

 me to go, but I wanted to go, and I suppose I will have to keep going 

 now. He only gave me my victuals and clothes. When I was nineteen 

 Vas the first time I went for myself. 



Q. You never took the trouble to inquire how much he made < 

 fishing? A. I know one year he settled for me, ami I earned bin 

 by fishing. I recollect that because it was a big sum then. 



Q. That was fishing in the gulf ? A. No ; I was in the gulf 

 but I began to go to the Georges in February, and went there mil 

 after the 4th of July. 



Q. Then you mean that the bulk was made at 

 mean that some was made at the Georges and some in the RU 



Q. Where was the greatest portion madeT- 

 on the Georges, because we were a longer time about i 



Q. How much did you make there !-A. About 

 whole. 



Q. What year was that? A. I don't know. 



Q. Was that when you were nineteen years old ! 



Q. You settled for yourself ?-A. No. I said I settled for r 

 I was nineteen. 



