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Q. After petting your bait at Cape Boyal, when TOO returned there, 

 how long did it take you to get oat of the Banks ? A. One day and 

 night 



Q. One night going out ? A. Yes. I may not have got just to where 

 I fished, bat I got on the Banks. 



Q. On the fishing-ground ? A. Not on the fishing- ground. 



Q. The Banks are all fishing grounds ! A. No. There are parts 

 where yon cannot get a fish. 



Q. Are those the only two occasions you were into Newfoundland for 

 fresh bait last year ? A. I was in three times. 



Q. Where dfd you go the third time ? A. To Portugal Cove, Con- 

 ception Bay. 



Q. How long did it take you to get there ? A. I went there direct 

 from home from the States. 



Q. That was your second trip ! A. Tes. . 



Q. Did yon go in for bait squid ? A. Yes. 



Q. Wha't time of the year ! A. About 12th September. 



Q. You employed the people there to get squid for yon immediately 

 on your arrival ! A. Yes. 



Q. And how long was it before they succeeded in supplying your 

 wants ? A. It took me about two weeks then. I got on the Banks on 

 the 16th September. 



Q. With a fall supply of bait ? A. Yes. 



Q. You then got your trip completed by what time ? A. We did 

 not get anything at all to speak of. We got about 200 quintals. 



Q. And you returned at what time ? A. We returned home about 

 7th November. 



Q. And you were on the Banks from 16tb September to 7th Novem- 

 ber T A. Not exactly all that time. I was in at Newfoundland when 

 coming home. 



Q. At what time did you leave the Banks ? A. Eleventh October. 



Q. Y'oo staid in Newfoundland from llth October till when ? A. 

 On 22d October, I think. I started for home. 



Q. Yon completed your fishing for that season ? A. Yes. 



Q. This year did yon go direct from Gloucester to the Banks, or did 

 yon go to Newfoundland first for bait * A. We went to Newfoundland, 

 Fortune Bay, first for bait. 



Q. At what time of the year ? A. We left home about 23d April, 

 and got to Newfoundland about 1st May. 



Q. What part of Fortune Bay did yon'go to for bait? A. Long Island. 



Q. Were there many vessels there at that time getting bait ! A. 

 Three or four. 



Q. Did yon take a seine with yon ? A. No. 



O.. Were any other American vessels there with seines? A. No 

 American vessel ever had a seine there. 



Q. I am informed that a large number of American vessels went there 

 this spring and caught bait themselves. A. They would not be allowed 

 to put a seine in the water there ; they would be chopped down. 



Q. Were you ever chopped down ? A. I never bad a seine there, and 

 never knew an American vessel with a seine there. 



Q. You have not seen them there ? A. No ; and I have traded there 

 all the time in the winter time. 



Q. You have been there for herring in winter? A. Yes; durin^ 4 

 winters. 



Q. That is, in the months of February and March ? A. Yes. 



Q. That is, for frozen bait ! A. For frozen herring. 



