Siciliano

On March 12, 1929, appellant shipped as a digester loader on the whaling ship> “Lansing” for a whaling voyage to Magdalena Bay, Mexico. The voyage is described in the articles as follows:

The wages were $35 per month, together with a bonus of 4 cents on each barrel of No. 1 and 2 cents on each barrel of No. 2 whale oil obtained during the voyage. On the 24to day of May, while packing whale meat in the digester, he was injured by the cover of the digester falling upon his hand, catching hte fingers between the cover and toe edge of to3 digester, and badly mashing his fingers. The ship’s doctor took care of him from toe date of the injury to June 18,1929, when his hand was sufficiently healed so that toe doctor advised him to begin light work, and he did so. On June 25 he resumed work at his usual task. During the period that he was working his hand 'was treated every night by toe doctor. It was soaked in warm water and massaged for the purpose, no doubt, of breaking up toe adhesions resulting from the healing of the wound. On toe 25th of July toe doctor suddenly left the ship. He was treating the appellant’s hand every night up to that time and testified concerning its condition,…