The Hunter

The proofs, I think, show that the libelant was engaged at a lay of the 1-100. He so swears himself, and he is corroborated by the testimony of Mr. Russell, who was engineer on board the ship-wrecked vessel Rainbow, from which they were received with others of the crew of the latter. At the time of his shipment, in answer to the master’s inquiry, he said that his lay on board the Rainbow was the 1-100 lay. In fact it was the 1-125 lay, but the master believed his statement, and agreed, as he alleges, to take him on the same lay. It is admitted that shipwrecked seamen taken on board a ship in…