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He was a delicate , slender little fellow , with a beautiful pearly complexion , regular features , forehead as white as marble , black haired , curling beautifully , rounded , tapering , delicate fingers , small feet , soft voice , gentle manners , and , in fact , every sign of having been well born and bred . " The last line , being the conclusion , he roared out at the top of his voice , breaking each word up into half a dozen syllables . First , the multiplication table and the tables of weights and measures ; then the states of the union , with their capitals ; the counties of England , with their shire towns ; the kings of England in their order ; and a large part of the peerage , which I committed from an almanac that we had on board ; and then the Kanaka numerals . Then I imagined them upon the stage , speaking their orations , dissertations , colloquies , etc ., with the gestures and tones of each , and tried to fancy the manner in which each would handle his subject , * * * * * , handsome , showy , and superficial ; * * * * , with his strong head , clear brain , cool self-possession ; * * * modest , sensitive , and underrated ; * * * * * , the mouth-piece of the debating clubs , noisy , vaporous , and democratic ; and so following . In addition to these , they had picked up at the theatres and other places a few songs of a little more genteel cast , which they were very proud of ; and I shall never forget hearing an old salt , who had broken his voice by hard drinking on shore , and bellowing from the mast-head in a hundred north-westers , with all manner of ungovernable trills and quavers - in the high notes , breaking into a rough falsetto - and in the low ones , growling along like the dying away of the boatswain 's " all hands ahoy ! " Where away , cook ? Here we found the Ayacucho and the Pilgrim , which last we had not seen since the 11th of September , - nearly five months ; and I really felt something like an affection for the old brig which had been my first home , and in which I had spent nearly a year , and got the first rough and tumble of a sea life . The curse of a people calling themselves Christian , seems to follow them everywhere ; and even here , in this obscure place , lay two young islanders , whom I had left strong , active young men , in the vigor of health , wasting away under a disease , which they would never have known but for their intercourse with Christianized Mexico and people from Christian America . However , we were spared any further experience on the point ; for the next day , when we must have been near the Cape of Pillars , which is the south-west point of the mouth of the straits , a gale set in from the eastward , with a heavy fog , so that we could not see half of the ship 's length ahead . Still , it was not ten o'clock , and the night was long before us , when one of the party produced an old pack of Spanish cards from his monkey-jacket pocket , which we hailed as a great windfall ; and keeping a dim , flickering light by our fagots , we played game after game , one or two o'clock , when , becoming really tired , we went to our logs again , one sitting up at a time , in turn , to keep watch over the fire . Its great size ; - for it must have been from two to three miles in circumference , and several hundred feet in height ; - its slow motion , as ts base rose and sank in the water , and its high points nodded against the clouds ; the dashing of the waves upon it , which , breaking high with foam , lined its base with a white crust ; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass , and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces ; together with its nearness and approach , which added a slight element of fear , - all combined to give to it the character of true sublimity .