2716 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Where had you caught the rest! A. Broad offshore, about 20 

 miles off; between that point and Entry Island, of the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Then you got frightened and ran off to Port Hood ? A. We got 

 our decks full and it breezed up and we had to run to Port Hood for a 

 harbor. 



Q. Where were these 25 barrels lying? A. On the deck along with 

 the rest. 



Q. When you catch mackerel, do you not dress them and put them 

 at once into barrels ? A. No, not until we get all we can into the barrels 

 and until they are fairly struck. We leave them for 24 hours generally 

 and then head them up and strike them down. 



Q. What do you call fairly struck ? A. Salted so that they will not 

 shrink. 



Q. As soon as you catch them you salt them ? A. As soon as we get 

 them we let them soak in water for perhaps two or three hours, if we 

 have good weather. 



Q. You then open them ? A. We then dress them. 



Q, How was it with these 25 barrels ? A. They were on deck along 

 with the rest. 



Q. Were these fish lying in water on deck ? A. They were all salted 

 when we reached Port Hood. 



Q. And they were in barrels ? A. Yes. 



Q. Were they headed up ! A. No. 



Q. And you saw Captain Darby after you came to Port Hood ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. You were then in the harbor ? A. Yes. 



Q. Was it foul weather when he came on board and took your papers ? 

 A. He came on board and got the papers from the skipper, and he 

 then went back to his cutter and told the captain to come in about an 

 hour's time, and he did so. 



Q. Who was your captain ? A. Llewellyn Eeed. 



Q. Where is he now ? A. He is in Gloucester, working as a teamster. 



Q. Your captain went on board of the cutter? A. Yes; and he 

 stopped there, I suppose, about half an hour, when he came back. 

 "Well," says he, "I have got the papers, and we have permission to 

 head them up, and stow them down" ; and says he, "I have got to give 

 him 20 barrels of mackerel to compromise for the papers." 



Q. Then I understood you to say that Captain Darby came down to 

 your vessel, took away the papers, told the captain to come on board of 

 the cutter, and about half an hour after he went, your captain came back, 

 and said he had compromised with Captain Darby, of the cutter, by 

 giving him 20 barrels of mackerel ? A. Yes. 



Q. What kind of mackerel were they ? A. Number ones, and good 

 ones very good ones. 



Q. Were these taken on board of the cutter ? A. They were put on 

 board of the small pinkey ; he had a little spy there, and he spied us oat. 



Q. Was the pinkey the spy ? A. Yes. 



Q. How much did this pinkey get f A. I could not tell you anything 

 about how they settled her hash. 



Q. What became of the fish ? A. They were put on board of the 

 piukey. Other vessels had to give him some. The Reindeer, of New- 

 buryport I recollect it the same as if it had happened but yesterday 

 took 2 barrels alongside the cutter, but Captain Darby was somewhere 

 on shore, or on board of some other vessel, at the time ; they asked if 

 Captain Darby was on board, and the answer was, "No"; then said the 

 mate, " What have you got ? r " We have 2 barrels of mackerel here to 



