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 900 d-EDEBAL EEPORTBR. �«rhen she firsi saw the bark, and the bark nearly one point on her starboard bow, and upon a course nearly south-east, and, of course, crossing the bow of the steamer to the south- ward. �Then the steamer is represented as porting, with her engines slowed and stopped, and moving ahead quite slow, making a course two points to starboard of her forruer course, and running one-fourth of a mile after porting, the bark mean- while having kept on her course one-sixteenth of a mile, and then starboarding and keeping off four points to the lee- ward, running a quarter of a mile on this course, and then the steamer starboarding three points and running on this new course an eighth of a mile, coming into collision with the bark about head on, or at a right angle upon the port side, the bark meanwhile having ported four and a half points and run a sixteenth of a mile to the place of collision. �The witnesses on the part of the steamer, who observed the collision, were the master, the mate, and the third offi- cer, who were on the bridge, one lookout on the bow, and one on the fore-bridge, the carpenter of the ship, and one of the quartermasters, who were not on duty, but hapjDened to be on deck. These witnesses testify that when they first saw the bark she was nearly ahead, ail but one of the witnesses other than the master putting her a little on the starboard bow. The master testified that she was right ahead, and, though pressed, refused to say that she bore at ail on either bow. His diagram, however, shows her on the starboard bow, and the answer so avers. The witnesses testified that ^hey could see her Siiils and her port bow; that she appeared to them to be on a course to the southward of them, crossing their bow. They vary greatly as to her distance atthat time, from a quarter of a mile to more than a mile. The mate puts her more than a mile oflf, and the master "a good mile off." The master was on duty, and directing the movements of the ship. She was so nearly ahead that she was reported by the lookout as "ahead." �The wheel of the steamer was imme Jîately put hard a-port, and the master testifies that he at the same time gave an ��� �