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It blew hard the whole time , and there was an almost constant driving of either rain , hall , or snow . We could put but little confidence in our reckoning , as there had been no opportunities for an observation , and we had drifted too much to allow of our dead reckoning being anywhere near the mark . On deck , all was as dark as a pocket , and either a dead calm , with the rain pouring steadily down , or , more generally , a violent gale dead ahead , with rain pelting horizontally , and occasional variations of hail and sleet ; - decks afloat with water swashing from side to side , and constantly wet feet ; for boots could not be wrung out like drawers , and no composition could stand the constant soaking . During the two days I had been below , the weather was much the same that it had been , head winds , and snow and rain ; or , if the wind came fair , too foggy , and the ice too thick , to run . The mission of San Francisco near the anchorage , has no trade at all , but those of San Jose , Santa Clara , and others , situated on large creeks or rivers which run into the bay , and distant between fifteen and forty miles from the anchorage , do a greater business in hides than any in California . One night , he burst into our room at the hide-house , breathless , pale as a ghost , covered with mud , and torn by thorns and briers , nearly naked , and begged for a crust of bread , saying he had neither eaten nor slept for three days . As much as my feelings were taken up by my own intelligence from home , I could not but be amused by a scene in the steerage . She was off the point at the same time with us , but did not get in to the anchoring-ground until an hour or two after us . A whole bullock ( we ate liver and all ) lasted us but four days . During the four months that I lived upon the beach , we were continually together , both in work , and in our excursions in the woods , and upon the water . I thought over everybody who would be likely to be there , but could fix upon no one ; when , the next day , just as we were about to shove off from the beach , he came down to the boat , in the rig I have described , with his shoes in his hand , and his pockets full of specimens . All our spare spars were taken on board and lashed ; our water-casks secured ; and our live stock , consisting of four bullocks , a dozen sheep , a dozen or more pigs , and three or four dozen of poultry , were all stowed away in their different quarters : the bullocks in the long-boat , the sheep in a pen on the fore-hatch , and the pigs in a sty under the bows of the long-boat , and the poultry in their proper coop ; and the jolly-boat was full of hay for the sheep and bullocks . We left the ship about noon , but , owing to a strong head wind , and a tide , which here runs four or five knots , did not get into the harbor , formed by two points of the island , where the boats lie , until sundown . Finding neither willing to make an offer for reconciliation , he called all hands up , ( for the captain was ashore , and he could do as he chose aboard , ) ranged the crew in the waist , marked a line on the deck , brought the two boys up to it , making them " toe the mark ; " then made the bight of a rope fast to a belaying pin , and stretched it across the deck , bringing it just above their waists . If we had started anything toward taking it in , either tack or halyards , it would have blown to pieces , and carried something away with it . Having been long enough below to get my hands well warmed and softened , the first handling of the ropes was rather tough ; but a few days hardened them , and as soon as I got my mouth open wide enough to take in a piece of salt beef and hard bread , I was all right again . We thought there must be a sail in sight , and that we were about to heave-to and speak her ; and were just congratulating ourselves upon it - for we had seen neither sail nor land since we had left port - when we heard the mate 's voice on deck , ( he turned-in " all standing , " and was always on deck the moment he was called , ) singing out to the men who were taking in the studding-sails , and asking where his watch were . A man , too , can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship ; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding , both in themselves and others . After I had got through these , I allowed myself a more general range among everything that I could remember , both in prose and verse .