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Just as she stepped from the church door , a small white cloud issued from the bows of our ship , which was full in sight , the loud report echoed among the surrounding hills and over the bay , and instantly the ship was dressed in flags and pennants from stem to stern . The captain and officers slept under the awning which was spread over the quarter-deck ; and we stowed ourselves away under an old studding-sail , which we drew over one side of the forecastle . We just missed of seeing the California , for she had sailed three days before , bound to Monterey , to enter her cargo and procure her license , and thence to San Francisco , etc. Captain Arthur left files of Boston papers for Captain T - - - , which , after they had been read and talked over in the cabin , I procured from my friend the third mate . The carpenter , very prematurely , and without any authority from the crew , had sounded the mate as to whether he would take command of the ship , and intimated an intention to displace the captain ; and the mate , as in duty bound , had told the whole to the captain , who immediately sent for all hands aft . We discharged our hides , and in four days were ready to sail again for the windward ; and , to our great joy - for the last time ! 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 . She seemed desirous of a trial of speed , and our captain accepted the challenge , although we were loaded down to the bolts of our chain plates , as deep as a sand-barge , and bound so taught with our cargo that we were no more fit for a race than a man in fetters ; - while our antagonist was in her best trim . Then , feeling of all our clothes , we picked out those which were the least wet , and put them on , so as to be ready for a call , and turned-in , covered ourselves up with blankets , and slept until three knocks on the scuttle and the dismal sound of " All starbowlines ahoy ! 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 . These were taken from her the next day , which filled us up , and we both got under weigh on the 4th , she bound up to San Francisco again , and we to San Diego , where we arrived on the 6th . " He confessed the whole matter ; acknowledged that he was on his back ; and now he had a prospect of a fit of the horrors for a week , and of being worse than useless for months . We got under weigh on the 10th , bound up to San Pedro , and had three days of calm and head winds , making but little progress .