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The music was lively , and among the tunes , we recognized several of our popular airs , which we , without doubt , have taken from the Spanish . Yet no one forgot the day ; and many were the wishes , and conjectures , and comparisons , both serious and ludicrous , which were made among all hands . He spent his own money and nearly all the stores among the half-bloods upon the beach , and being turned away , went up to the Presidio , where he lived the life of a desperate " loafer , " until some rascally deed sent him off " between two days , " with men on horseback , dogs , and Indians in full cry after him , among the hills . The captain sent for us about ten o'clock , and we went aboard in high spirits , having enjoyed the new scene much , and were of great importance among the crew , from having so much to tell , and from the prospect of going every night until it was over ; for these fandangos generally last three days . I went on board the first night , after supper ; found the old cook in the galley , playing upon the fife which I had given him , as a parting present ; had a hearty shake of the hand from him ; and dove down into the forecastle , where were my old shipmates , the same as ever , glad to see me ; for they had nearly given us up as lost , especially when they did not find us in Santa Barbara . Misfortune , extravagance , and the want of funds , or any manner of getting interest on money , soon eat the estate up , and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished , poor , and proud , and without any office or occupation , to lead the life of most young men of the better families - dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand ; ambitious at heart , and impotent in act ; often pinched for bread ; keeping up an appearance of style , when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street , and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place . " Then there was the Commencement at Cambridge , and the full account of the exercises at the graduating of my own class . Indeed among people of the character of these Mexicans , the waltz seemed to me to have found its right place . Keeping some sticks near , to dry , and covering the whole over with a roof of boards , we kept up a small fire , by which we cooked our muscles , and eat them , rather for an occupation than from hunger . " was raised for the first time , and joined in , with full swing , by everybody .