AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. L>.;L>3 



a quarter of a mile with your eye. If we are 5 miles off we wonld be 

 pretty certain of being 3 miles oft' shore. 



Q. Then you cannot tell save within two miles of the exact distance t 

 A. Yes. 



Q. It is difficult to tell within two miles whether you are three miles 

 from the shore or not! A. Well, yes. What makes megive this answer 

 is, I was never accustomed to fish inshore at all. 



Q. Did you never fish within five miles of land ! A. I could not say 

 for a certainty. I may have caught some fish within five miles of the 

 shore. 



Q. Have you caught fish six or seven miles off? A. Yes. 



Q. You have caught them within six miles of the coast ? A. Yes, 

 some. 



Q. How many ? A. I took nearly one whole trip in the bend of the 

 island, at the place we c-ill the Flat Ground, seven or eight miles off 

 land. 



Q. When was this ? A. In 1851. 



Q. You then took nearly your whole trip within six or seven miles of 

 land? A. Yes, six or seven. 



Q. Was it six or seven ? A. I could not say. 



Q. Will you swear that you did not catch .one half of that trip within 

 five miles of land ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then you are able to tell when you are five or six miles off the 

 coast so as to swear to it ? A. I cannot state anything definite on this 

 subject. 



Q. Are yon able to swear that you caught one-half of this trip within 

 five miles of the shore ? A. No. 



Q. You are not able to swear that? A. No; we called the distance 

 at which we took them six or seven miles oft' shore. 



Q. You are not able to swear to five miles or not? A. I am able to 

 swear that we did not then catch any fish within five miles of the coast. 



Q. You caught them all within six miles of it ? A. We might have 

 been some days 6 or 7 or 8 miles off. 



Q. You told me you were able to swear that you caught the whole 

 trip within six miles of the shore? A. I said six or seven miles. 



Q. Could you say you caught the whole trip within seven miles of the 

 coast? A. Yes. 



Q. You are sure of that ? A. It was somewhere about that distance; 

 that is as near as I can state. 



Q. Then you are perfectly certain that you caught them all within 

 seven miles of the coast ! A. Yes ; it was about seven miles from the 

 land. 



Q. And you said that you did not catch any within five miles of it t 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Then you are able to tell within two miles where you caught 

 them? A. I could say as to seven miles from the land. Some fish might 

 have been taken farther oft'; but I cannot say for a certainty. 



Q. When I asked you if you had caught some within five miles of 

 land, you positively said you did not. A. And I ain positive about it 

 now. 



Q. Did you not a moment ago say that you could not tell whether you 

 were five or three miles from the shore! A. You can tell that you are 

 five miles off better than three. 



Q. Did yon say so or not? A. I said that all I had to go by was my 

 eye. 



