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Yet here he was , with his passage given him , ( as I afterwards learned , ) for he had not the means of paying for it , and living upon the charity of our agent . It corresponded , too , with the desolate character of her situation ; - alone , as she was , battling with storms , wind , and ice , at this extremity of the globe , and in almost constant night . An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men , or , rather , of life on board ship . It was my duty to furl the fore royal ; and while standing by to loose it again , I had a fine view of the scene . The pretty lawn on which it stands , as green as sun and rain could make it ; the pine wood on the south ; the small river on the north side ; the houses , with their white plastered sides and red-tiled roofs , dotted about on the green ; the low , white presidio , with its soiled , flying , and the discordant din of drums and trumpets for the noon parade ; all brought up the scene we had witnessed here with so much pleasure nearly a year before , when coming from a long voyage , and our unprepossessing reception at Santa Barbara . My medicines , however , were gone , and no more could be got from the ship , so that his life was left to hang upon the arrival of the California . We adopted each method at different periods of the stowing , and parties ran high in the forecastle , some siding with " old Bill " in favor of the former , and others scouting him , and relying upon " English Bob " of the Ayacucho , who had been eight years in California , and was willing to risk his life and limb for the latter method .