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during any of the years when you were fishing ? A. No ; I do not know 

 as I do. We had one or two one year, but I do not know as I could 

 recollect their names. 



Q. I would like you to do it if you can. A. We had one man named 

 Jim Hose, I think. 



Q. Where was he from? A. Prince Edward Island. I think that 

 was bis name. 



Q. What year was this ? A. I could not tell you exactly. It was 

 eight or nine years ago, I think. 



By Mr. White way : 



Q. You said you had been to Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, for frozen 

 herring ? A. Yes ; that was 12 or 13 years ago. 



Q. You have not been there since ! A. No. 



Q. Are you aware whether the herring are now shipped from there in 

 bulk or in barrels ? A. We took them in bulk. 



Q. And frozen herring are invariably shipped in bulk? Yes. I never 

 knew them to be shipped in any other way. 



By Mr. Foster : 



Q. Yon told Mr. Davies yon once saw as many as 200 vessels in Port 

 Hood ? A. Yes; a good many English vessels were in the fleet at the 

 time. 



Q. What year was this ? A. I do not know as I could tell the year ex- 

 actly. I suppose it was somewhere about nine or ten years ago ; it was 

 at the time of a heavy breeze, I remember. 



Q. Can you tell how many of these vessels were British ? A. O, well, 

 I suppose that nearly one-half of them were so ; I should think that 

 these vessels numbered 80 or 90 sail sure. 



Q. They were not all fishing vessels, were they ? A. Yes; some were 

 cod-fishers and a good many mackerel-fishers. 



Q. When you were at Port Hood in 1874, how many American vessels 

 were there there then ! A. The fleet was not very large that year. 



Q. How many did it number I A. I could not exactly tell; sometimes 

 a greater and sometimes a lesser number was there ; perhaps there were 

 40 sail. 



Q. Were you at Port Mul grave June 25, 1874 ? A. No ; we were then 

 at home. 



Q. When did you leave home ? A. After the 4th of July. We always 

 left home after this date, one year excepted, and that was in 1856, to the 

 best of my knowledge. We then went after poor mackerel. 



Q. Could the Alferetta have been there on the 25th of June, 1854? 

 A. No ; I do not think so. 



Q. Do you only think not ? A. No. I owned half of her, and we 

 were on George's Bank at that date. We always go there up to the 4th 

 of July. 



By Mr. Weatherbe: 



Q. Did you call at Hartley's on the way through f A. I think that 

 we did. 



By Mr. Foster: 



Q. You did not leave Gloucester that year until after the 4th of July! 

 A. No. 



Q. How do you know that you were not there on the 20th of October! 

 Where were you then ? A. In the bay. We might have been going out 

 at that date. We generally leave the bay about the 20th or the 25th of 

 October. 



