2040 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. I will take the year 1855, where did you catch your fish in 1855, 

 and where in 1856 ? I ain trying your memory now. I observe you are 

 looking at the book. A. I think I caught them on Bradley. 



Q. In 1855 and 1856 ? A. I think so. 



Q. Uo you state that from your memory alone, or do you find it in the 

 book? A. I get it from uiy memory alone. 



Q. Can you speak respecting 1856 from your memory alone ? A. I do 

 not know as I could. 



Q. Can you do so respecting 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860 ? A. In 1860 

 I was at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Can you speak concerning the other years, between 1856 and 

 1860, from your memory alone ? A. Well, we were some on Bradley 

 Bank, and some at the Magdalen Islands ; these islands were generally 

 nay fishing ground. ; 



Q. You said a moment ago that in 1860 you were at the Magdalen 

 Islands ? A. I think that I did say so. 



Q. And you state that from your memory alone ? A. I think so. 



Q. I understood you to say in direct examination that in 1860 you 

 caught your fish on Bank Bradley not at the Magdalen Islands ; how 

 do you account for that ? Can you state from your memory alone where, 

 during any one year, you caught your fish ? A. Yes. 



Q. Give one year. A. 1869. 



Q. Where did you catch them then ? A. On Bank Orphan. 



Q. Can you give me any other year ? A. Yes. 



Q. Which? A. 1845. 



Q. Where did you then catch them ? A. On Bank Bradley. 



Q. Had you that fact entered in your book ? A. In this book ? 



Q. Yes. A. Yes, I think so. 



Q. Did you have it entered in your other book ? A. It might have 

 been in some of the books. 



Q. Do you know whether it was so entered or not ? Are these the only 

 two years you remember? A. Xo. 



Q. Give one, another year. A. 1862. 



Q. Where were you then ? A. At the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. In direct examination, you said that in 1862 you caught your fish 

 all over the bay ? A. Perhaps I am wrong respecting all over the bay, 

 but 1 do not think that I gave it so. 



Q. If you did, then you were wrong ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you so give it in from your book ? A. I think I gave it in 

 that we then caught our fish at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. You are giving that from the book ? A. I gave it from the book at 

 first. 



Q. And now also, are you not ? A. Well, no. I did not give it from 

 the book at first, but I have looked at it since. I told you the Magda- 

 len Islands, when I looked at the book. 



Q. And when you first made your statement on the point to Mr. Fos- 

 ter you did not give it irom the book ; is that corrector not ? A. Yes 

 DO, no. 



Q. When you gave it to Mr. Foster, did you give it from the book ? 

 When you made your statement to Mr. Foster in direct examination as 

 to where you caught your fish in 1872, did you give it from the book ! I 

 have taken your statement down, that you caught them all over the bay 

 that year; am I incorrect ? A. I could not say for a certainty. 



Q. Whether you did so or not, where do you now say that you caught 

 them? A. In 1862, I said, we caught them at the Magdalen^ Islands. 



Q. You are positive about that f A. I am not positive, but I think so. 



