AWARD OF THE FISHER* COMMISSION. 

 Q, And you drifted ?-A. We kept drifting and dragging in cm tW 



Q. What is the effect of the 'wind on the tide there r_ A Win* (W 

 wind makes right iu from the east, northeast, and ea*t, it HU ih* tut 

 into the bight of the island. 



Q. So besides the wind you have a tide running into the bight * A 

 Yes ; right iu. The wind drives tho water right iu and crrate* a :roag 

 current. 



Q. How is the shore there, shoal or deep? A. It in rerr ho*l a * 

 general thing along the whole of Prince Edward Island : betvtva Nactb 

 Cape and Cape Kildare you cannot anchor within a mile of land, tt ruu 

 off so shoal. 



Q. Is there a bar up oft' North Cape ! A. There is what w rail a tbtw* 

 mile bar at this point; and outside of that it is shoal, then? Mug IT* 

 fathoms of water. 



Q. Taking one of our large ships of 100 tons, drawing from ft to 13 

 feet of water, is it safe for them to go near North Caj>e in time of brarj 

 weather? A. A 100-ton vessel now draws from 12 to 14 fwt of valor. 



Q. Is it safe for a vessel drawing from 10 to 14 feet of vatrr to go 

 there ? A. It is not. I would not call it safe to go within * or 10 ml** 

 off Xorth Cape in a heavy gale of wind ; and I would uot like to be tbvrv 

 then. 



Q. How far did you drift off? A. We went over North l'a|w liar o 

 Saturday night, iu tive fathoms of water. 



Q. What was the reason ? A. We were there jogging along, the m4 

 heading to the northeast, and then it came round to the tvat north***!, 

 and that was all that saved us from foundering. A number of * r*rU 

 were seen near there that night which were never heard of after. 

 of them was the Colonel C. .Mathews, of Southport, which had 

 '130 barrels of mackerel. A large schooner from the lUy of Fuul> 

 afterwards found ashore there, farther down. 



Q. Would you have been safe at all if the wind had not ubi 

 I do not think so ; otherwise we would have gone ashore of a crrt 



Q. Did you make calculations for doing so ! A. Yen ; 

 for running the vessel ashore, but one of the crew, Jamefl 

 Scotian by birth, persuaded him not to do so. Warn we g 

 over the breakers, we came on the other side into dM 

 or 13 fathoms and as the wind shifted, we kept 

 The wind was then about north. 



Q. How many trips did you make in 1^7 ! 



Q. What did you catch on your first trip .'- 

 rels, which we landed at Arichat. 



Q. And on the second .'-A. We got somewhere bc 



Banks, and up toward Gaspe. 



Q. In what vessel were you fishing ' 1 

 bella, I think, on our shore. 



Q.' How did you do?- A. We d,d a f.ur I, 



Jo" .n, -np , 



