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A firing was heard in the direction of Hingham , and the pilot said there was a review there . 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 ! He looked round in vain , for some time , until the direction of so many laughing eyes showed him the fair offender . It was my trick at the wheel from two till four ; and I stood my last helm , making between nine hundred and a thousand hours which I had spent at the helms of our two vessels . A sailor knows too well that his life hangs upon a thread , to wish to be always reminded of it ; so , if a man has an escape , he keeps it to himself , or makes a joke of it . His father had been governor of the province , and having amassed a large property , settled at San Diego , where he built a large house with a court-yard in front , kept a great retinue of Indians , and set up for the grandee of that part of the country . A few hours more carried us through , and when we saw the sun go down , upon our larboard beam , in the direction of the continent of North America , we had left the bank of dark , stormy clouds astern , in the twilight .