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Our hearts were all up in our mouths , and we pulled away like good fellows ; for the precious packet could not be opened except by the captain . Our watch had an afternoon watch below , for the first time since leaving San Diego , and having inquired of the third mate what the latitude was at noon , and made our usual guesses as to the time she would need , to be up with the Horn , we turned in , for a nap . At the same time there was something in his expression which showed a slight deficiency of intellect . This pacified them a little , but Jack had got a notion that a poor lad was to be imposed upon , and did not distinguish very clearly ; and though I knew that I was in no fault , and , in fact , had barely escaped the grossest injustice , yet I felt that my berth was getting to be a disagreeable one . In the scuppers lay the galley , bottom up , and a few boards floating about , the wreck of the sheep-pen - and half a dozen miserable sheep floating among them , wet through , and not a little frightened at the sudden change that had come upon them . Finding the rain running down upon us , and our jackets getting wet through , and the rough , knotty-logs , rather indifferent couches , we turned out ; and taking an iron pan which we brought with us , we wiped it out dry , put some stones around it , cut the wet bark from some sticks , and striking a light , made a small fire in the pan . " and , in a few minutes , every sail was set ; for the wind was light . " was the answer to everything ; and we should not have minded this , were it not for the thought that we should be off Cape Horn in the very dead of winter . The thought that we were actually going up for the last time , and that the next time we went round San Diego point it would be " homeward bound , " brought things so near a close , that we felt as though we were just there , though it must still be the greater part of a year before we could see Boston .