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Q. How, when you come to haul your seine up, to get the fish 

 out, so as to put them on the schooner, it is closer inshore than 

 when the seine is first set? A. No. 



Q. How far do you say the seine of the Gerring was set 

 from the shore? A. I judge that it was set very nearly four miles 

 off. 



Q. What shore are you referring to? A. I am referring to 

 any that was visible to the naked eye. 



Q. You don't count Gull Ledge? A. Yes, I do. I say any 

 land visible. 



Q. Tell me, what was the nearest land? A. I could not tell 

 you. I don't know the name of it. 



Q. Can you indicate it on this chart? A. No. 



Q. What was the nature of the land you saw? A. Some of it 

 was low, and some of it was high. 



Q. When you refer to what was four miles away, do you re- 

 fer to this ledge ? A. I mean land ; any land that I saw. 



Q. Was it a straight coast line or a ledge of rock? A. I saw 

 an island oflF there. 



Q. What was the nature of the land that you spoke of as 

 being four miles off? A. It is impossible for me to say without 

 being on it. 



Q. Give me the best description you can ; you can tell whether 

 it was an island or the main land ? A. I said I saw a rock. 



Q. Is that what you spoke of as being four miles off? A. 

 Yes, I judge that it was three and a half to four miles. I don't say 

 what it was for I have not been on it. 



Q. How much closer in than that did you take the schooner? 

 A. I took her no closer; I had instructions from the captain to keep 

 to windward of the boat. 



Q. Did the seine change its position after it was first set? A. 

 No, not to my knowledge. 



Q. There was quite a swell on, was there not? A. Yes. 



Q. That swell would naturally drift the schooner inshore if 

 you did not keep her off? A. No, I don't see why it should. The 

 wind would have a tendency to drive her off. 



Q. What would be the effect of the swell on the seine? A. I 

 don't think that it would have any effect. 



