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The captain walked the deck at a rapid stride , looked aloft at the sails , and then to windward ; the mate stood in the gangway , rubbing his hands , and talking aloud to the ship - " Hurrah , old bucket ! An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men , or , rather , of life on board ship . During the next watch it fell calm , with a drenching rain , until daybreak , when the wind came out to the westward , and the weather cleared up , and showed us the whole ocean , in the course which we should have steered , had it not been for the head wind and calm , completely blocked up with ice . One night , after one of these shifts of the wind , and when all hands had been up a great part of the time , our watch was left on deck , with the mainsail hanging in the buntlines , ready to be set if necessary . An occasional touch of the toe to the ground , seemed all that was necessary to give him a long interval of motion in the air . At length , according to his own account , being desirous of returning home , he went to a shipping-office , where the shipping articles of the California were open . In this little , wet , leaky hole , we were all quartered , in an atmosphere so bad that our lamp , which swung in the middle from the beams , sometimes actually burned blue , with a large circle of foul air about it . An opening was then made between two hides in the pile , and the back of the outside hide of the book inserted . An English brig , which had put into San Francisco , lost both her anchors ; the Rosa was driven upon a mud bank in San Diego ; and the Pilgrim , with great difficulty , rode out the gale in Monterey , with three anchors ahead .