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Q. Why not ? A. Because when the wind conies to the eastward you 

 have to get away. You have no lee when the wind is from the eastward. 



Q. What harbors can you go into ? A. Into no harbor with a south- 

 east wind. 



Q. You have not been there since the breakwater was built ! A. I 

 have not been there since 1873. 



Q. Do you know that a large breakwater has been built since then ? 

 A. They were commencing to build a breakwater then, but only large 

 enough for two or three whale-boats. 



Q. You have not seen the breakwater which has been built there at 

 an expense of $60,000 or $70,000? A. No. 



Q. How can you say it was but sufficient to cover three or four whale- 

 boats? A. It was not built when I was there. 



Q. Did you ever fish much about Margaree ? A. Yes. 



Q. Within three miles of the shore? A. No. 



Q. Not off Margaree ? A. I fished round Margaree, not within three 

 miles of the shore. 



Q. You did not try there? A. No; we were offshore. 



Q. You are sure of that ? A. Yes. 



Q. Although it is sixteen years ago ? A. Yes. 



Q. Although you had the right to fish where you pleased during many 

 of the years of which you have spoken. Did no other vessels do it! 

 A. No. 



Q. How can you tell ? A. We could not find any when we were there. 



Q. You swear you never went in to try within three miles of the 

 shore; is that the fact? A. I don't recollect of swearing I never went 

 within three miles of shore to try. 



Q. At Margaree? A. I don't remember it. 



Q. Did you or did you not? A. I don't remember anything about it. 

 I don't remember you asking me a question about Margaree Island. 



Q. Did you or did you not ever try to fish within three miles of the 

 shore at or about Margaree ? A. I have. 



Q. Where and when ? A. In different years. Almost every year I 

 ever fished there we tried more or less. 



Q. And the fleet tried more or less? A. Yes. 



Q. Do many of the fleet go there in the fall ? A. We went to Mar- 

 garee, Port Hood, and Cape George ; some part of the fall we would be 

 up and down that coast. 



Q. Sometimes fishing within three miles of the shore and drifting off! 

 A. They cannot be always drifting off, because the wind is sometimes 

 blowing on shore. 



Q. When the wind is favorable, is that mode of fishing pursued? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. And they tried it every year ? A. Every year I have been there. 



Q. When the wind is favorable they try within the limits and drift 

 oft shore. That is the fact ? A. They try more or less inshore and 

 drift off. 



Q. What the results of the vessels' voyages were, you don't know? 

 A. No. 



Q. You kept on trying every year within the lines? A. Occasionally 

 we tried. 



Q. Is there not round Margaree Island itself very excellent fishing 

 ground ? A. 1 never found it so. 



Q. Have you heard other fishermen speak of it as such ? A. I have 

 heard of other vessels doing well there. It had been said there were 



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