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ing home full fares ? A. Yes; certainly, because they might have sUitl 

 and got their fares. 



Q. Then you consider the salt bait preferable ? A. No, I never said no. 



Q. The fresh bait you consider preferable ! A. Certainly. 



Q. Why f A. Because it is contrary to the element of the n*h. Of 

 salt bait there is nothing but clains salt clams that you can catch 

 fish with. I have shipped them down here from your people, which is 

 right in the fresh bait. 



Q. Then the fresh bait is no good at all ! A. It is good ; it in flrat 

 rate, better than salt clains ; but salt clams is the best salt bait you can 

 get. 



Q. But surely you don't mean to say that fresh bait is better than salt 

 bait? A. Yes. 



Q. Do you mean to say that you can catch more fish with fresh bait ? 

 A. Always. 



Q. You can catch them faster ? A. Yes. 



Q. You are certain of it ? A. Yes. 



Q. It is no great advantage to have salt bait ! A. Not much at all, 

 if you can get fresh bait if you can get it on the ground where you are 

 fishing, and get it every day. 



Q. Well, if you must have it so! A. I will have it so until I am 

 older than I am now. 



Q. Then you would use exertions to get fresh bait T A. They do use 

 a good deal of exertions. They get a good deal of squid on the Hank. 



Q. Suppose you had not squid on the Bank, you would try to get it 

 elsewhere? A. No; you would not go that distance. 



Q. What distance? A. One hundred miles. 



Q. I was not speaking of any distance. A. I mean the distance to 

 St. John's from the Banks. 



Q. Then you think it would be prejudicial to go 100 miles to get that 

 bait, although the fresh. is so much better! A. I want my vessels to 

 stay there. 



Q. And you think it would be prejudicial to the vessels to go into 

 Newfoundland to get fresh bait? A. It would be an advantage to the 

 vessel and the crew to stay where they were and fish. 



Q. Then it would be injurious to them to go in ? A. It would not be 

 injurious if they could get it without spending half the time looking for 

 it. If the Newfoundland people will employ a steamer to got bait and 

 run out, we will buy it and pay that much money for it. 1 would 

 that, and pay a good deal more money for it than I do now. 

 them fetch it out. 



Q. But if you can go in and out in four days, don't you tl 

 be better to use it? A. That was an extra trip. They will never 

 again. 



Q. Do you mean to say no vessel can do it in four dnysT- 

 to say that to run in from Virginia Kocks to St. John's and 

 bait and return again. 



Q. St. John's is not the only port A. They will have to go 

 for them if they don't go to St. .John's. 



Q. Don't yon know there are abundance of harlwre boh 

 Kace and St. John's? A. There are abundance, but 

 nearer ? 



Q. Is not the bait very prolific in those harbors '- 

 five miles up the bay. But you cannot catch bait at all 

 the harbors. 



