9557. Where do you get your supplies?-Generally from the merchant for whom I am fishing. We don't have means to get them anywhere else.
9558. Are you generally a little bit in arrear end of the year?-No; I always manage to have something over to help to pay the land rent.
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9559. Do you pay your rent to Hay & Co.?-Yes, to the man whom they send up to make the settlement. They send a man every year to West Sandwick.
9560. Are you fishing for them just now?-No; the last one I fished for was Mr. Williamson. I have made no arrangement for the present year.
9561. Where are you getting your supplies for the incoming year?-We are shifting along the best way we can. We have some corn and potatoes of our own.
9562. Is not the time past for making up the boats' crews?-No; sometimes it is done before now, but sometimes it is as late as the month of April.
9563. Are there many men near you who have not made any arrangement for this year?-There are a good few, principally those who fished along with me last year.
9564. Then I suppose you are quite at liberty to go and fish for anybody you please?-So far as I know, I am.
9565. Have you no account running anywhere just now?-No.