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 659 ITEDEiBAIi BEPOBTBB. �respect he was in fault, as he should have complîed with the laws of his country, and obtained either oil or butter, that the crew might have the same if they should afterwards require it. �At Alexandria 1,100 pounds of ship bread were procured, 600 or TOO pounds of which, as the master states, were on hand when they left Gibraltar. The latter part of the voy- age the crew were allowed one to two biscuits per day ; less than half the quantity to which they were entitled by the Swedish law. By the laws of this country, 60 pounds of bread for each man is required to be stowed under the deck before sailing on an ocean voyage, and the amount on board the Amalia was in excess of the requirements of our law. Her voyage was much protracted, and 700 pounds of bread would ordinarily afford a crew of nine men an allowance of eight pounds per week on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port- land. Suoh a voyage, at this season of the year, usually takes from 45 to 50 days ; but with so foui a ship I think the master of the Amalia had no right to expect a passage of less than 60 days, or about two montas. On her voyage to New York the crew consumed two barrels of beef or pork per month, and this master undertook to make hia passage from Gibraltar to Portland with not more than one and a half bar- rels on board, having no reason to suppose that his passage would be less than 60 days, in which time, if the crew were supplied as on the voyage to New York, 800 pounds of salted meat would have been consumed by them ; or, if the require- ments of the kSwedish law were observed, about 500 pounds would have been requisite. �It thus appears that there was a great and inexcusable deficiency in the supply of sait provisions when this vessel left Gibraltar. This wr.s something more than an accidentai mistake or error of judgment on the master'a part in thus set- ting sail on this voyage, with a short supply, endangering the safety of his ship and his crew, intending to speak to some vessel and obtain provisions from her if in need. �It is urged that the true test for the court to adopt, in decid- ing upon the question of the discharge of the crew from their ����