702 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



by my men, and we took at least 1,000 barrels, enough to load my 

 vessel and one other. The Newfoundland fishermen came off in their 

 boats and told me to take my seine up, or they would take it up for 

 me, and that they would cut it up. There were about 200 men en- 

 gaged in this violence, and my own crew consisting of six men I 

 could not resist, but was obliged to take up my seine. I saw the seines 

 of the schooners New England and Ontario destroyed, and knew that 

 mine also would be destroyed if I did not take it up. My seine was 

 not attached to the shore when they came off, and the attack on me 

 was made in boats. After destroying the other seines they all made 

 for me, and my only safety was to gather up my seines. I lost all 

 my fish, and the Newfoundland fishermen put all the obstructions 

 they could in the way to prevent the use of our seines after that. 

 From my knowledge of the facts I do say that the NeAvfoundland 

 fishermen are determined to prevent American fishermen from using 

 the shore fisheries. I consider that the loss to the vessel and the 

 charter party at not less than 5,000 dollars, and under the Treaty 

 of Washington I have been deprived of my rights as an American 

 citizen, and full indemnity should be allowed for the outrage. I 

 have read the statement of Captain Dagle, and know it to be true 

 in all its particulars. The effect of this treatment will be to destroy 

 the American fishing for herring at Newfoundland. There are 

 annually about 100 voyages by American vessels made for herring 

 to Newfoundland. The Newfoundland fishermen were taking her- 

 ring on the same day the outrages before stated occurred. 



(Signed) JAMES MCDONALD. 



ESSEX, ss: 



GLOUCESTER, February W, 1878. 



Personally appeared the above-named James McDonald, master of 

 the schooner F. A. Smith, who subscribed and made oath that the 

 foregoing statement is true. 



Before me. 



(Signed) ADDISON CENTER, 



Justice of the Peace. 



(14.) 

 Deposition of Charles H. Nute. 



GLOUCESTER, February 19, 1878. 



I, Charles H. Nute, master of the American schooner Edward E. 

 Webster, of Gloucester, do on oath depose and say : 



That I have just returned from Newfoundland, where I have been 

 for a load of herring. I went for the purpose of co-operating with 

 other American vessels in the use of their seines in taking herring. 

 1 was at Long Harbour, and saw the destruction of the seines of the 

 American schooners New England and Ontario. I have seen the 

 statement of Captain Dagle, of the American schooner Lizzie and 

 Namari, and substantiate all he has stated. I have returned without 

 a herring for the same reasons. My actual loss in time of vessel and 

 crew, with herring I should have bought had I not been prevented 

 by the inhabitants of Newfoundland, is fully 5,000 dollars; and, 

 owing to being deprived of my rights under the Washington treaty, 



