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Q. Show me on the chart J. M. D. "b" what you call the 

 northern point of Big White Island? A. I mean that point of it 

 touched by the line marked W. N. W. in ink on the chart. It is on 

 the western extremity of the island, and might be called the north- 

 western point of the island. 



Q. From the place you were when you got the bearings, you 

 made measurements on the water to where ? A. Made a measure- 

 ment from there to Gull Ledge. I found it to be a little over a 

 mile and a half. It would not be as much as a mile and three- 

 quarters. 



Q. How did you make the measurements? A. I made it by 

 means of a patent log. 



Q. Did you have more than one log? A. Yes, I had two — 

 there was one on the port side and one on the starboard side. 



O. With your two logs out you ran from the point of inter- 

 section of the two bearings to Gull Ledge? A. Yes. 



Q. What do you say about the correctness of those Patent 

 logs? A. I say that they were absolutely correct. 



Q. How do you know that? A. I know it by observation 

 and experience ; they are the two logs we have used all winter. 



Q. Have you tested them before and since? A. Yes. 



Q. Did any of your officers have an opportunity of observing 

 the bearings and measurements you took? A. Yes, my first and 

 second officers had. They are Mr. Kinney and Mr. Milne. 



Q. What do you say about the correctness of the compass 

 with which you took the bearing? A. It is perfectly correct. It 

 is one of Sir William Thompson's patent compasses and is cor- 

 rected more or less every day. It was probably corrected the day 

 before I took the bearings, and it might have been corrected the 

 day following, that evening, or the next morning. I can say posi- 

 tively that it was corrected the day before and the day after. 



Q. Did you do anything to verify its correctness on this par- 

 ticular occasion ? A. Yes, I took an angle with a sextant, between 

 the northern point of Big White Island and Liscombe Light. 



Q. What did that indicate? A. It indicated the same num- 

 ber of degrees on the sextant that were shown as points on the 

 compass. 



Q. And what did that show in regard to the correctness of 

 the bearings? A. It showed that the compass was correct. 



