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O. Are you prepared to say that you have seen the waves 

 breaking right over that place you call Gull Ledge? A. Yes, I 

 am prepared to swear that they were breaking over it when the 

 steamer was towing us up here. 



Q. You swear that on the 25th of May you saw the waves 

 breaking over Gull Ledge? A. No, but on the 26th I did; I saw 

 it when the steamer was towing us to Halifax from Liscombe. 



Q. Have you seen the same thing at other times? A. Yes, 

 quite often. I mean that the sea goes clean over the top of it, and 

 would wash any object off it. 



Q. How far was it from Gull Ledge where you caught these 

 fish? A. I should think it was three miles and a half. 



Q. What do you base that on? A. I base it on the circum- 

 stances of the naked eye, and judgment according to the looks 

 of the headlands to me. 



Q. I understood you to say that you measured with your log 

 the distance from the place you were seized to Liscombe? A. No, 

 I asked to be allowed to tow the log, but he refused me permission. 



Q. But you said afterwards, unless I am mistaken, that when 

 you were taken in tow, you thought it would be no harm to put 

 the log over, when you were going to Liscombe, and I understood 

 that you did so? A. No, I said that I told the captain of the 

 Aberdeen that I was going to do so, but he refused me 

 permission. 



Q. You told Mr. MacCoy that when you were seized, you 

 thought you were 3 miles from the wash rock? A. No, I could 

 (not) say exactly; but I thought we (were) three miles and a half, 

 or over 3 miles from any rock. 



Q. The Gull Ledge was the nearest to you? A. Yes. 



Q. It was the nearest of anything like land? A. Yes, 



O. Is this correct, — that when you v/cre there you thought you 

 were about 3 miles from the wash rock? A. No, I thought we 

 were 3y> miles from it, and so I told Capt. Knowlton. 



Q. And you liave still the (same) same idea about llic dis- 

 tance, you don't think you made a mistake? A. No, I don't think 

 that I was wrong. I could have been easily convinced by towing the 

 log, but they did not seem to wish it. 



Q. How was it you said the tide was running? A. I do 

 not keep any run of the tides here. Captain Knowlton said it 

 was running S. W. 



