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 BUNGE «. STEAMSHIP DTOPIA. 895 �nav^ation of the steamship — :proceeding thenc« forward ata. moderate rate of speed of about nine knots, and blowing her gteam whistle at intervais of not more than a minute; that Bhortly after 6 p. m., and at about 5 : 10, a lookout on the bow Bung out, ' A vessel ahead,' and the vessel, afterwards known to be the Helios, was seen by the officers of the steamship on the bridge, bearing as to situation nearly directly ahead of the steamship, about a quarter, of a point, or less, on the Bteamship's.starboard bow, showing her port bow, and hav- ing the wind free and ail her sails (without studding sails) set, and drawing and moving at a rate of speed of about eight knots an hour, and sailing south of east, and on a coursa inclined to th» southward of, and to pass to the southward of, that of the steamship, sailing on a course west by north, quarternorth — ^the bark being, when first seen from the steam- ship, at a distance off of a mil« and more, ar ■" bo far off that on their respective courses tfaere was no danger of a collision from proximity, nor any ground for apprehension of danger by persons in charge of the navigation of the bark, if ordi- narily competent seamen, and minding theii business ; that immediately upon the observation of the bearing and the standing of the bark, as aforesaid, the helm of the steamship, for greater caution, was ordered to be and was put hard a-port, and if the bark had continued, as she should have done, on the courge on which she was standing when first sighted from the steamship, and when the helm ot the steamship was ordered to be put and was put a-port, as aforesaid, the two vessels would have passed — the steamship to the northward and the bark to the southward, at a proper and safe distance, and so far off that no collision could have been possible ; that instead of so continuing her course, the bark, after the steam- ship's helm had been put a-port, as aforesaid, put her wheel to starboard and altered her course to pass to leeward of tha Bteamship, snd so as to stand aeross the line of direction of the steamship- this through some misconception (from care- less observation or other f ault on the part of the bark, aa afterwards leamed, but unknown at the time on board tha Bteamship) that this great steamship was a ûshing vessel at ��� �