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When beaten , they were taken from this pole by two more , and placed upon a platform of boards ; and ten or a dozen men , with their trowsers rolled up , were constantly going , back and forth , from the platform to the boat , which was kept off where she would just float , with the hides upon their heads . They were moored , stem and stern , in a grog-shop , making a great noise , with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them , and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked , or left to pass the night in the calabozo . Having no money , and all his clothes and other things being in the chest , on board , and being a stranger , he became tired and hungry , and ventured down toward the shipping , to see if the vessel had sailed . I went below and turned-in , covering myself over with blankets and jackets , and lay in my berth nearly twenty-four hours , half asleep and half awake , stupid , from the dull pain . " Sails " ( the sailmaker ) tried to comfort him , and told him he was a bloody fool to give up his grub for any woman 's daughter , and reminded him that he had told him a dozen times that he 'd never see or hear from his wife again . The musicians were still there , upon their platform , scraping and twanging away , and a few people , apparently of the lower classes , were dancing . Great preparations were making on shore for the marriage of our agent , who was to marry Donna Anneta De G - - - De N - - - y C - - - , youngest daughter of Don Antonio N - - - , the grandee of the place , and the head of the first family in California . He was hungry , and it was growing dark , and he began to see that there was no use in playing the caballero any longer , and came down into the forecastle , put into the " grub " in sailor 's style , threw off all his airs , and enjoyed the joke as much as any one ; for a man must take a joke among sailors . There is a story current among seamen , that a beef-dealer was convicted , at Boston , of having sold old horse for ship 's stores , instead of beef , and had been sentenced to be confined in jail , until he should eat the whole of it ; and that he is now lying in Boston jail .