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All the hides that had been collected since the California left the coast , ( a little more than two years , ) amounting to about forty thousand , were cured , dried , and stowed away in the house , waiting for our good ship to take them to Boston . Indeed among people of the character of these Mexicans , the waltz seemed to me to have found its right place . This seems to me to be as good a position as the whole subject can be left in . I read nearly all day , until sundown ; when , as soon as supper was over , as I had nearly finished , they got a light from the galley ; and by skipping what was less interesting , I carried them through to the marriage of Everard , and the restoration of Charles the Second , before eight o'clock . Still , all these things must be left to be gradually modified by circumstances . We had had a new topmast studding-sail made with a reef in it , - a thing hardly ever heard of , and which the sailors had ridiculed a good deal , saying that when it was time to reef a studding-sail , it was time to take it in .