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Q. Have you made any experiments to determine that? A. 

 Nothing more than that I have seen fishermen out working when 

 I was passing through them. 



Q. Have you got a positive idea about that? A. I would not 

 like to swear positively, but speaking from a general knowledge of 

 ocean currents. I imagine that that would be the case. 



Q. Supposing the seine was made fast to the schooner some- 

 where near where it was put out, upon what do you base your opin- 

 ion that she would not work inshore? A. Capt. MacKenzie says 

 that the schooner was fast to the seine with the boom on the star- 

 board side, the vessel headed to the south, and the current setting 

 to the westward. This was setting the seine towards the schooner, 

 and if the schooner did not get out of the way of the seine, she 

 would foul it. Therefore there must have been air enough to keep 

 the schooner drifting faster than the net. She certainly would not 

 go astern. 



Q. Then the first ground you state in support of your opinion 

 that she would not drift inshore, is the fact that the seine was on 

 the port side of the schooner? A. Yes. 



O. And the next is the fact which you assume that the seine 

 did not foul the schooner? A. Yes. 



Q. Bringing the seine on the port side of the schooner, would 

 that bring it inshore? A. Not necessarily, it would bring it to the 

 eastward of the schooner. The schooner going ahead would trail 

 the seine to a certain extent behind her. 



Q. What other reason have you for stating this opinion of 

 yours? A. The impossibility of the schooner going astern with 

 her sails full on one side. 



Q. Now, if the seine were set where Capt. MacKenzie says it 

 was between 4 and half past 4 o'clock, and if the vessel was seized 

 something after six, you base your opinion on the fact of the sails 

 having been in what position that time ? A. On the ship's starboard 

 side. 



Q. H that is not so, you would not express any opinion about 

 it? A. I would not express so strong an opinion. 



Q. That is the main ground you have? A. Yes. 



Q. Now, with a southerly swell, and the current as it is there, 

 the natural tendency would be to drift the vessel inshore with a 

 tendency to the westward? A. If there was nothing to influence 



