AWARD OF THE FISHEKY COMMISSION. 2039 



Q. Were taken from your account-books. You say now you awora 

 before that was the case? A. I don't think that I swore it. 



Q. You said it since you came here? A. I said it. 



Q. You understood that as swearing to itf A. I swore to speak a.s 

 well as my memory would allow me, and to the best of my ability. 



Q. What I understood you first to say was that you took the 'names 

 of the places where your fish were caught, from your memory! A. Not 

 altogether; I took some from my account-books. 



Q. Some of the names of the places where the fish were caught? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. What kind of a book was it what would you enter f A. It waa 

 nothing but a common account book. 



Q. Tell me what names of places where you canght fish wore taken 

 from the account-book and what were not. A. 184G and 1847, 1 recol- 

 lect. 



Q. Some of the places entered in this book were taken from your ac- 

 count-book? A. Yes. 



Q. What in regard to the rest were they taken from memory ? A. 

 I said most were taken from my account book. 



Q. Are you able to tell me what places entered in that book as being 

 places where you caught your fish were taken from 3*011 r memory alone 

 and not from any account-book? A. I could not distinguish them. 



Q. Then with regard to the places where your fish were taken, en- 

 tered in that book, they were entered partly from your memory aud 

 partly from your account-book? Is that correct! A. Yes. 



Q. There is no mistake about that ? A. No. 



Q. Now, how many years did you find a record of the places where 

 you caught your fish entered in your account-book? A. I could not 

 tell you exactly. 



Q. About half the time? A. I think so, or more. 



Q. And the other half? A. You understand, part of those I took 

 from other sources. 



Q. Did you enter half the places from memory ! A. I could not tell 

 exactly. 



Q. When you caught fish did you enter the name of the place! A. 

 Yes, in a book which I had with me on my vessel. 



Q. You generally entered the name of the place where you caught 

 your fish ? A. Not always. 



Q. Did you sometimes ? A. Yes. 



Q. How often did you do so? A. I could not tell you exactly. 



Q. Can you give me any idea how often ? A. 1'robably one-half or 

 more. 



Q. Will you swear to one-half ? Are you able to say that yon ei 

 half the names of the places where you caught your tisu f A. 

 I did. 



Q. Then how are you able to state with regard to other places 

 you did not enter? A. I got that by following my years down 

 lected. 



Q. You got them from your memory alone ?- 



Q. 1 am speaking of the places not entered in your account 

 which you got from your memory alone. Did you go and jw*k 

 else about them ! A. No. 



Q. You got them from your memory alone ?- -A. 

 memory. 



Q. From memory alone ? A. I think so. 



Q. From memory alone, is that correct ?- -A. 



