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Our ship was now all cased with ice , - hull , spars , and standing rigging ; - and the running rigging so stiff that we could hardly bend it so as to delay it , or , still worse , take a knot with it ; and the sails nearly as stiff as sheet iron . It seemed as though the genius of the place had been roused at finding that we had nearly slipped through his fingers , and had come down upon us with tenfold fury . Still , we saw no ice , and had great hopes of going clear of it altogether , when , one afternoon , about three o'clock , while we were taking a siesta during our watch below , " All hands ! One cold , rainy evening , about eight o'clock , I received orders to get ready to start for San Jose at four the next morning , in one of these Indian boats , with four days ' provisions . " The last week , we had been occupied in taking in a supply of wood and water for the passage home , and bringing on board the spare spars , sails , etc. I was sent off with a party of Indians to fill the water-casks , at a spring , about three miles from the shipping , and near the town , and was absent three days , living at the town , and spending the daytime in filling the casks and transporting them on ox-carts to the landing-place , whence they were taken on board by the crew with boats . Accordingly , having picked out a good berth , in the stream , with a good smooth beach opposite , for a landing " Place and within two cables ' length of our hide-house , we moored ship , unbent all the sails , sent down the top-gallant yards and all the studding-sail booms , and housed the top-gallant masts . He made a sign to the mate , who came forward , took his station , deliberately between the knight-heads , cast a glance aloft , and called out , " All hands , lay aloft and loose the sails ! She sailed early in December for San Diego and intermedios . The boats were then hove out , and all the sails , spare spars , the stores , the rigging not rove , and , in fact , everything which was not in daily use , sent ashore , and stowed away in the house . American merchantmen ) were , a pint of tea , and a pint and a half of molasses , to about three gallons of water . After having been in port twenty-one days , we sailed for San Pedro , where we arrived on the following day , having gone " all fluking , " with the weather clew of the mainsail hauled up , the yards braced in a little , and the lower studding-sails just drawing ; the wind hardly shifting a point during the passage .