AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2086 



down to 1862 books and bills. You say you mean by bills billn of par- 

 eels; is that correct? A. Well, it is as I stated. I referred to my old 

 bills and books that I took these accounts from. 



Q. You understand a bill of items and a bill of parcels to mean the 

 same thing ? A. I am not certain. 



Q. Where did you catch the fish you took in 184.8? A. I caught them 

 on Bradley, I think. 



Q. What makes you think so? A. Because generally when I came in 

 the bay I went right on Bradley. 



Q. Therefore you think you caught them on Bradly! A. I don't 

 think; I ain pretty certain I caught them on Bnulleey. 



Q. Is it a fact that a considerable number of American fishpnnen, 

 when they first come in the bay, go to Bradley? A. They used to go 

 to Bradley. 



Q. That was the practice? A. Yes. 



Q. Is it true or not, as has been stated in evidence here, that for about 

 one week or ten days, sometimes, you have been in the habit of finding 

 plenty of fish there ? A. Yes. 



Q. That is correct? A. Yes; plenty on Bradley; we caught them 

 very fast. 



Q. After leaving Bradley where did you go next ? A. We generally 

 went to the Magdalens. 



Q. That has been your practice? A. That has been my practice. 



Q. You go to Bradley first and then to the Magdalens ; has that been 

 the practice of others ? A. That has been the practice of quite a large 

 part of the fleet. 



Q. Of how many of the fleet? A. I could not say; I don't knowr. 



Q. How is it that in some of your catches there is no account of 

 Bradley ? Did you sometimes fail to catch any there. You always 

 went there first, did you not ? A. Yes. 



Q. And then you always went straight from there to the Magdalensl 

 A. From Bradley we perhaps crossed over the gully to the Magdalens; 

 the gully is between the Magdalen Islands and -Bradley. 



Q. I asked you where you went next, and you said direct to the 

 Magdalens? A. To the Magdalens. Yes. 



Q. From Bradley ? A. Yes; but we would be fishing from there to 

 the Magdalens. 



Q. You did not go direct ? A. What we call direct. \> e won 

 luff to and try for half or three-quarters of an hour. 



Q. Did you luff to in going that year? A. I could not say. 



Q. That was your practice? A. Our practice was to 1 



Q. Not to go direct? A. Sometimes we would run direct. 



Q. Your former answer was that you went direct 

 from Bradley. 



Q. You mean you may have luffed to sometimes 

 going direct ? A. Yes ; that is a kind of fisherman'* phrase. 



Q. Then when you say you fished at the Magdalens, you don t 

 at the islands particularly, but all around in that regie 

 neighborhood ; sometimes we are out of sight ot land, t< 

 and then we are close in. 



Q. Did you ever fish along the two shores of the E 

 at Gaspe", and across on the other side ?-A. >ot ranch : 



Q. You have not fished much there, but have flsl 

 the first time we have heard you caught any whate 

 you give a very vague answer !-A. 1 think I told you 

 fish off Bonaventure. 



