694 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



the only way I know, and is pretty well understood by both foreigners 

 and natives. 



(Signed) RICHARD HENDRIKEN, his x mark. 



Sworn before me at Tickle Beach, Long Harbour, this 14th day of 

 June, A. D. 1878. 



(Signed) GEO. L. SULJVAN, 



Captain and Senior Officer on the Coast of Newfoundland. 



(6.) 



Deposition of Ambrose Pope. 



The examination of Ambrose Pope, of Stone Cove, Long Harbour, 

 taken upon oath, and who saith : 



I was at Tickle Beach on a Sunday in January last. I don't know 

 the date. I saw the Newfoundlanders hauling a seine and leave it on 

 the beach ; it was torn in hauling it on shore. It was evening when I 

 saw the seine hauled on the beach, and it was laying there when I left 

 the beach. 



I don't know if any was carried away. I don't know anything 

 more about it. The Americans we thought had no right to haul their 

 seines on Sunday. 



(Signed) AMBROSE POPE, his x mark. 



Sworn before me at Anderson Cove, this 15th day of June, A. D. 

 1878. 



(Signed) GEO. L. SULJVAN, 



Captain and Senior Officer on the Coast of Newfoundland. 



(TO 



Deposition of James Tharnell. 



The examination of James Tharnell, of Anderson's Cove, Long 

 Harbour, taken upon oath, and who saith : 



I am a special constable for this neighborhood ; I did not see any- 

 thing of the alleged outrage last January, but I heard something 

 about it; I believe some of the men named Pope were on the beach, 

 but which I do not know. 



Q. Have you formed any opinion as constable as to the cause of the 

 dispute ? A. Mr. Snellgrove, of the customs, and myself, from what 

 we were informed of the circumstances, were of opinion that the 

 Americans were acting illegally in shooting their seines, but notwith- 

 standing that, nothing would have been said to them for that had 

 it not been on the Sabbath day. The men forbid them hauling seines 

 on the Sabbath day, and told them to take them up or they would take 

 them up for them, and what annoyed them so much was that the 

 Americans drew their revolvers ; probably, if it had not been for the 

 threat of the revolvers the seines would only have been taken up, and 

 not torn. They asked him three times to take them up before they 

 did so themselves. 



The people were not aware that it was illegal to set the seines that 

 time of the year, and were only prompted to their act by the fact that 



