The Imperator

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty dismissing appellant’s libel upon exceptions. The appellant was a seaman on the steamship Imperator, and alleges that, while that vessel was entering the harbor of Belize, British Honduras, he was injured while engaged in the performance of his duty by the breaking of a rope in the rigging; that the rope was unsafe, and that the ship was therefore unseaworthy.

The libel, after alleging that the admiralty law of England is in force in British Honduras, pleads sections 7 and 35 of the English Admiralty Act of 1861, which provides:

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