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Q. How many barrels did you take ? A. Three hundied and twenty 

 the first trip. 



Q. Where? A. Along the 'island, off on Bunk Bradley, and all 

 round. 



Q. In 1857, did you fish, as in 1832, coming within a mile of the abore 

 and drifting oft'* A. No; the fish were not there; at leant we did uot 

 find them there. 



Q. Did you try? A. Yes. Sometimes we came in nnd made Mai- 

 peque Harbor, to get wood and water. We have to come in for water 

 once in ten days or a fortnight, unless we make up our mind* to take a 

 big stock with us. 



Q. You did not drift off shore and fish in 1-S57 ? A. No; I do not 

 remember of doing so, or of making a business of it. Sometime*, in 

 going out of Malpeque Harbor, we would heave to and drift off, but we 

 never made a business of fishing inshore that year. 



Q. And you could not tell what proportion of the 3ii() barrels was taken 

 in the bight of the island I A. No. 



Q. It might be one-half or two-thirds of the trip ? A. I do not think 

 that we caught any such amount as that there. 



Q. Does your memory enable you to state any proportion ? A. We 

 did not catch any within the three-mile limit. 



Q. Can you say what proportion of the 320 barrels was caught in the 

 bight of the island ? A. I could not tell you exactly. 



Q. Your memory does not enable you to do so,? A. Without statin- 

 tics, I could not tell you. 



Q. How do you know that you did not catch any within the throe mile 

 limit; you must have taken some while drifting off shore ? A. And we 

 might not. I have fished many times for half a day and never caught 

 a fish ; and I have been fishing a week without taking a fish. 

 ' Q. But how was it on that particular trip ? A. I do uot say tbat I 

 remember the incidents of that trip. 



Q. And, therefore, you would not like to swear that you did not catcb 

 any fish withiu the three-mile limit? A. I say I do not think that we 

 so caught any. 



Q. You do not think so, but you do not remember precisely! 

 not remember of so catching any. 



Q. But it may be otherwise ; is not your memory pretty blank on tbat 

 point ? A. If we had then caught any close inshore, I would have beri 

 apt to have remembered it, more so than as respects (tali ranght ' 

 traveling around the bay and heaving to here and there and every where j 

 catching them close inshore is a peculiarity. 



Q. Then, from your experience in this fishery, if a large 

 men caught fish within 3 miles of the shore, you think that they 

 be sure to remember it? A. I think they would remember 

 better than their catching them anywhere else. \ ou cm 

 close inshore, but when you are drilling round all over the gulf. y< 

 not locate fishing places. 



Q. And you would be inclined to place a good deal of weij! 

 statements of men who testified specifically that they caught I 

 three miles or one mile of the shore ! A. Yes ; if 1 

 any truth in it. 



Q. But that one fact in itself would have weight i 

 Yes ; I think it would. 



Q. Wheu did vou sit down to consider this matter over am 

 these figures? A. Wheu I fouiid that I was coming i 

 here. 



