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We took the loss of our beef very easily , consoling ourselves with the recollection that the cabin had more to lose than we ; and chuckled not a little at seeing the remains of the chicken-pie and pan-cakes floating in the scuppers . No sooner had we got into the large bay , than we found a strong tide setting us out to seaward , a thick fog which prevented our seeing the ship , and a breeze too light to set us against the tide ; for we were as deep as a sand-barge . During the two days I had been below , the weather was much the same that it had been , head winds , and snow and rain ; or , if the wind came fair , too foggy , and the ice too thick , to run . " - The fall was stretched along the decks ; all hands laid hold ; - " Hurrah , for the last time , " said the mate ; and the anchor came to the cat-head to the tune of " Time for us to go , " with a loud chorus . 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 . " When all sail had been set , and the decks cleared up , the California was a speck in the horizon , and the coast lay like a low cloud along the north-east . A broad-backed , big-headed Cape Cod boy , about sixteen years old , had been playing the bully , for the whole voyage , over a slender , delicate-looking boy , from one of the Boston schools , and over whom he had much the advantage , in strength , age , and experience in the ship 's duty , for this was the first time the Boston boy had been on salt water . The tide leaving us , we came to anchor near the mouth of the bay , under a high and beautifully sloping hill , upon which herds of hundreds and hundreds of red deer , and the stag , with his high branching antlers , were bounding about , looking at us for a moment , and then starting off , affrighted at the noises which we made for the purpose of seeing the variety of their beautiful attitudes and motions . She proved to be the brig Convoy , from the Sandwich Islands , engaged in otter hunting , among the islands which lie along the coast . He could not recollect his name , but said he was a " sort of an oldish man , " with white hair , and spent all his time in the bush , and along the beach , picking up flowers and shells , and such truck , and had a dozen boxes and barrels , full of them . It was soon ready , the boom topped up , preventer guys rove , and the idlers called up to man the halyards ; yet such was still the force of the gale , that we were nearly an hour setting the sail ; carried away the outhaul in doing it , and came very near snapping off the swinging boom . Toward daybreak the gale abated a little , and she was just beginning to go more easily along , relieved of the pressure , when Mr. Brown , determined to give her no respite , and depending upon the wind 's subsiding as the sun rose , told us to get along the lower studding-sail . The names of the streets , with the things advertised , are almost as good as seeing the signs ; and while reading " Boy lost ! Many of the reflections , and the political parts , I omitted , but all the narrative they were delighted with ; especially the descriptions of the Puritans , and the sermons and harangues of the Round-head soldiers . Every man had his station , and was not allowed to leave it ; and nothing happened to break the monotony of the night , except once setting the main topsails to run clear of a large island to leeward , which they were drifting fast upon .