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All the Kanakas attributed his escape solely to my knowledge , and would not be persuaded that I had not all the secrets of the physical system open to me and under my control . This afternoon , a signal was made from the shore , and we went off in the gig , and found the agent 's clerk , who had been up to the pueblo , waiting at the landing-place , with a package under his arm , covered with brown paper , and tied carefully with twine . This started us , and we ran forward , and looked over the bows , and over the sides , to leeward , but nothing was to be seen or heard . It was now the first part of May ; and two months would bring us off the cape in July , which is the worst month in the year there ; when the sun rises at nine and sets at three , giving eighteen hours night , and there is snow and rain , gales and high seas , in abundance . 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 . 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 . Nearly two hundred hours ( as we had calculated it ) had we walked the ship 's deck together , at anchor watch , when all hands were below , and talked over and over every subject which came within the ken of either of us . I slept on till all hands were called in the morning ; for , fortunately for me , the Indians , intentionally , or from mistaking their orders , had gone off alone in the night , and were far out of sight . This day was Christmas ; and as it rained all day long , and there were no hides to take in , and nothing especial to do , the captain gave us a holiday , ( the first we had had since leaving Boston , ) and plum duff for dinner .