2488 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. You did not go inshore ? A. No. 



Q. You did not then run into a harbor ? A. If it was dark and stormy 

 looking we certainly would go in for the night. 



Q. Then on these different occasions you never made harbor at 

 night ? A. Yes ; but not as a general thing. 



Q. And on these different occasions you kept inshore ? A. The man 

 I was hired with did so. 



Q. This was the case on the twenty occasions you speak of? A. Yes; 

 save on two of these occasions, when I went fishing in boats belonging 

 to myself. 



Q. And on eighteen occasions you kept inshore ? A. Yes. 



Q. And caught nothing there? A. Yes; nothing worth speaking of 



Q. And these people would not go out beyond 3 miles to fish ? A. No. 



Q. How far from the laud did you keep ! A. From half a mile to 

 1 7 and 2 miles. 



Q. In other words, you actually fished eighteen times, for two or three 

 mouths at a time, and you never caught more than 15 or 16 barrels of 

 fish ? A. No. 



Q. You so fished during eighteen different seasons for three months 

 at a time ? A. Yes. 



Q. How did you get provisions ? A. We took them with us. 



Q. Did you take provisions for three mouths in an open boat ? A. 

 Yes ; they were stowed away in the cuddy. 



Q. Was this au open boat ? A. Yes ; with a cuddy forward. There 

 were from four to five or six hands on board. A barrel of flour, with 

 other things, will do this number for six month's time. 



Q. What was the size of the boat ! A. 20, 22, or 25 feet keel. You 

 can get boats down here with 18 feet keel that will carry 500 quintals 

 of codfish. 



Q. And provisions for six months ? A. A barrel of flour, with other 

 necessities, stores, will do it. 



Q. Where do you stow them ? A. Forward. 



Q. Not in the cuddy ? A. Yes. 



Q. And you had barrels of fish on board, and salt, and all that ? A. 

 Certainly. 



Q. How many barrels had you on board ? A. A 300-quintal boat 

 could take about 150 barrels. 



Q. How many had you on board ? A. About 100, I suppose, includ- 

 ing whole barrels and half barrels, to make stowage for the boat. 



Q. Hove many barrels of salt had you ? A. We buy this by the hogs- 

 head, but to make ballast we put it into barrels, unheading them as we 

 use it. A hogshead holds 1 bushels. 



Q. How many hogsheads had you ? A. About 15. 



Q. You had besides 100 barrels to put fish in aboard? A. Yes; and 

 we could stow fish away in bulk. 



Q. And besides all these you had in au open boat provisions for six 

 men for three months! A. Yes. 



Q. And all this in a boat of 25 feet keel ? A. Yes; that is done in 

 the country. 



Q. And you never went into a harbor at all ? A. We used to do so if 

 it looked dark and stormy and the like of that. 



Q. And you never went outside of the three-mile limit while on these- 

 voyages ? A. No ; not in the boats in which I was a hired, man. 



Q. You did not do so these eighteen times ? A. No. 



Q. Never at all ! A. No ; not in the boats in which I was. 



