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 MIECOVICH V. BARK BTAR OF SCOTIl. 593 �Bav the red light ; that it was about two points on their port bow when he noticed that they stopped going off and appeared to be Bteàdier; that he could nôt tell how long it was before the green light appeared again, but not very long; that when it came in sight the green light was crossing their bow; that the red disappeared and the green appeared, and then the collision. Being-asked if the red light changed its bearing while he was watehing it, he answered: "Our ship was Bteadied after we saw it. It did not change its bearing for a minute or so — a good three minutes. It must have changed its bearing to produce the collision." �One of the apprentices, who was about amidships, testified that he first saw the red light on the poi-t side ; that it bore nearly ahead ; that he saw it about five minutes. The seaman, who was standing by amidships, saw the green light on the port side for a very short time. He watched it till it changed to red. He says he waited a minute, during which he saw the red, and then he saw both lights together. He could then see the loom of a vessel, and he ran aft to help the man at the •wheel. When he first saw the green light it was well forward ; he could give no idea of the distance, but it seemed to be pretty close, �He gives no testimony as to how the red light bore or iti movement after it was seen. �The wheelsman testified that after putting his wheel hard np he noticed a red light; that it was just on the port bow. When asked if it broadened any on the port bow, he said : "Of course. We were keeping away. We kept away till we brought this light well on the port bow. We brought it a couple of points on the port bow. Then I got orders from the second officer to steady my wheel. I did so." He also testified that she had swung off altogether three points; that the next thing he saw was a green light about two points on the port bow. �On cross-examination he said that he saw the light when he was to steady his wheel, and that it rahged betweeu the mizzen rigging and the mizzen topmast backstay. �From where he stood this wôuld have been about two T.2,no.6— 38 ����