46 FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



There, on the same page, is an afi&davit by Joseph Bowie, mas- 

 ter of the American schooner "Victor." He went into Musquito, 

 Newfoundland, three times for bait, he says, and bought capehn 

 from the local fishermen. He continues, at the bottom of p. 716: 



"The next time I went to a place called Devil's Cove on the chart, but 

 it is called Job's Cove by the people; this was on the 4th of August, and the 

 only bait to be obtained was squid. I anchored in the cove about J of a mile 

 from the shore, and commenced to catch squid with the common hooks or jigs 

 used for that purpose. I had no nets or seines on my vessel. I had been 

 fishing about fifteen minutes when some sixty boats that had been fishing in- 

 shore from us, manned by at least one hundred and fifty men, rowed up along- 

 side of us and forbade our taking any squid." 



The President: If you please, Mr. Senator Root, where is this 

 Musquito ? Is that on the treaty coast or the non-treaty coast ? 



Senator Root: I think it is not on the treaty coasts. It was 

 under the Treaty of Washington. 



The PEEsmENT: Oh, yes; under the Treaty of Washington. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: They were all treaty coast at that 

 time. 



The President: Yes. 



Senator Root: They appeared to have been in the habit of 

 buying their bait, until the Treaty of Washington came along, 

 and there was all this talk about the value of the fishery, and the 

 HaKfax award had determined that we were to pay 5,500,000 

 dollars for the privilege of fishing. Apparently, then, the Ameri- 

 can vessels tried to fish, and this was the obstacle that they met 

 from the local inhabitants. 



This same affidavit goes on to say that the natives prevented 

 their fishing, and finally they bought their bait and went their 

 way. 



Judge Gray: Do you know, sir, as a matter of fact, v/hether, 

 outside of the Treaty of Washington, when it was open, the Ameri- 

 cans were in the habit of resorting to- what would now be called the 

 non-treaty waters to buy bait ? 



Senator Root: I think the indications are that they went to 



