The Guadeloupe

BROWN, District Judge,

On the 31st day of March, 1898, the French schooner La Guadeloupe, being then at Santos, Brazil, was chartered to E. Johnston <& Co. for the carriage of a cargo of coffee to New York. She was loaded by the charterers and left Santos on May 4, 1898. Shortly after, she met with a pampero, or hurricane, in which she lost her anchors, damaged her windlass, and was subjected to considerable strain, whereupon she returned to Santos for repairs. After an official survey there, and the making of all such repairs as were deemed necessary, she again sailed on the 31st day of Slay,…