Defendant admitted the assault, Complainant, sworn, aaid.—I am a Prussian, Twas an able seaman out board the Aviambra, I'bave been disrated. On the morning of Land others were stowing away sails in the'locker. The third mate ordered me to go aft with him, to make the spanker up to go forward. I was leaving the locker to obey his order, when one of the crew complained ho was left alone to do all the work. I said to him I was obeying the last orders, when the mate said to me: "I'l make you obey the last order," and struck me two blows—one under the' lip, and another on the nose. The blow on the lip loosened my teeth, and I was unable to eat any biscuit, unless soaked, for ten days; and the blow also cut a hole through my under lip. After the mate had strack me, he jumped on the top of the deck-load, and, hanging on the break of the forecastle, which was seven feet above the deck, where I. stood, kicked me two or three times in the face, He had a pair of shoes on, with thick heels. My face was swollen to a great size,
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