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how many ! A. We got about 50 barrels at East Point, from 3 to 8 

 miles out; about the same number at the Magdalen Islands. From East 

 Point to Port Hood we got a few going across, and from there down to 

 Cape North we got the rest of the catch, about 150 barrels. 



Q. Do you say you were at Margaree ? A. Yes. 



Q. How near the shore did you take mackerel there ? A. About three 

 miles off. 



Q. Three miles from the mainland or the island ? A. From the 

 island. 



Q. Were you in the bay in 1866 ? A. Yes. 



Q. In what schooner ? Atlantic, of Bedford, Captain Coombs. 



Q. How many barrels did you catch ? A. About 60 barrels. 



Q. Where did you get them ? A. At the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. How long were you in the bay ? A. About six weeks. 



Q. What was your earliest trip to the bay ? A. In 1858. 



Q. How many times between 1858 and 1866 were you in the bay ? A. 

 Three times. 



Q. When were you next there before 1866 ? A. In 1860. 



Q. In what schooner ! A. Abegail^ Captain Duubar. We were fish- 

 ing for both cod and mackerel. 



Q. On the same trip ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long were you in the gulf that year ? A. About three 

 months. 



Q. Do you remember what you took ? A. 20 quintals of cod and 4 

 or 5 barrels of mackerel. We were not really catching mackerel. We 

 fitted out for codfish. 



Q. What bait had you ? A. We caught mackerel for bait. 



Q. Where did you fish for cod ? A. Away up Madeleine River. 



Q. Were you in the bay in 1859 ! A. Yes ; In President, of Belfast^ 

 Capt. Con way. 



Q. Were you fishing for mackerel ? A. For codfish and mackerel. 



Q. How much mackerel and how much codfish did you take! A. I 

 guess about 150 quintals of codfish and about 150 barrels of mackerel. 



Q.' Where did you take the mackerel ? A. Off Bonaventure. 



Q. Within what distance of the shore ? A. Just in, right off the hills. 



Q. In 3858 what schooner were you in? A. Columbia, of Belfast, 

 Capt. McFarlane. 



Q. Fishing for mackerel ? A. Yes. 



Q. What did you get? A. I believe we got about 200 barrels. 



Q. How old were you then ? A. 12 years. 



Q. Do you remember what was your fishing ground? A. Off North 

 Cape and the Bend of Prince Edward Island. 



Q. How near the shore at the bend of the island ? A. I should think 

 about 3 or 4 miles out. 



By Mr. Davies: 



Q. Did you ever fish in Bay Chaleurs ? A. We have been into Ship- 

 pegan for a harbor. 



Q. You never fished up in the bay ? A. Not up -in there. 



Q. Then you know nothing about the fishing there ? A. No. 



Q. Have you ever heard of the fleet going there to fish ? A. I believe- 

 they have been there. 



Q. Have you ever fished at Seven Islands ? A. No, I don't know 

 where they are. 



Q. Nor up St. Lawrence River? A. I have been away up there fish- 

 ing. 



