The Samuel Ober

The claimant, Edward E. Small, of Provincetown, chartered the schooner Samuel Ober for a cod-fishing voyage of seven months from May 1,1882, on the coast of Maine. The libelants, Manuel Francisco, John Francisco, and Manuel Catón, are Portuguese fishermen, living in Provincetown, unable to read or write. They allege that they shipped as fishing hands on the schooner lor this voyage, under an oral agreement by which they were to serve for five months from May 1st, and were to receive as wages for such service, respectively, $250, $240, and $210. They left the vessel October 2d, at Sontli-west…