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Q. But ou looking at a schooner from the land, how will it be ? A. 

 If you err at all, you will be nearer than what you seem ; the schooner 

 would look farther out than what she was. 



Q. Have you any opinion as regards the comparative value of salt 

 bait and fresh bait for cod-fishing ? If so, state what it is, and give 

 your reasons. A^ I think, of course, that with fresh bait you catcb more 

 fish for the titne being; there is no doubt about that. But the time that 

 is lost in the vessel running in after bait, as a general thing, would be 

 more than counterbalanced by continuous fishing with salt bait. I know 

 that from experience. 



Q. Would that be the case with trawls as well as with hand-lines ? 

 A. I don't know anything about hand-line fishing. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. Looking from the shore at a vessel, the liability to err would be 

 about equal I A. I should think you would be more liable to underes- 

 timate the distance if looking to the shore. I should not like to say 

 positively. 



Q. You took out a license two years ? A. I did not say two years. 

 I took out a license one year, and I ani not sure about the other year. 



Mr. Foster said the list showed that a license had been taken out 

 during two years. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. You were master of the vessel at that time ? A. No. 



Q. That was in 18C6 and 1867 ? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1862 you caught 200 barrels at North Cape, Bank Bradley ; but 

 how near the shore you have no idea? A. Because the matter was not 

 agitated. 

 - Q. Some were taken inshore ? A. Yes. 



Q. In 1863 you were in the General Buruside, and made a pretty good 

 catch. I understood you to say you got 250 barrels near Flint Island. 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Most of the fish taken around Sydney and Cape Breton are taken 

 inshore ? A. Bound Sydney they were that time. I don't know any- 

 thing about it other years, because I never fished there. 



Q. You never fished there except that one time ? A. No. 



Q. Were many American vessels fishing there besides your vessel 

 when you got those 250 barrels ? A. There were a good many there ; 

 but they left before they caught a great many. They caught a good 

 many. 



Q. They fished inside ? A. They fished where we did. No doubt 

 some were taken off shore and some inshore ; that is, of those we caught 

 there. 



Q. The other vessels would take the mackerel about the same place 

 you did? A. Yes; at the time we were there. 



Q. Where did you get the other 550 barrels ? Did you fish that year, 

 1863, along Prince Edward Island shore ? A. Not at all. 



Q. Nor in Bay Chaleurs? A. No. 



Q. Where did you take the rest of the trip ? A. At Bank Bradley, 

 around Magdalen Islands, and at Bank Orphan. 



Q. You did not go near the shore at all ? A. Not when we caught 

 mackerel . 



Q. Did you try fishing there? A. I don't recollect whether we did or 

 not. I know we did not catch any. We did not visit the shores and 

 harbors ; we staid out all the time. 



