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As seamen improve , punishment will become less necessary ; and as the character of officers is raised , they will be less ready to inflict it ; and , still more , the infliction of it upon intelligent and respectable men will be an enormity which will not be tolerated by public opinion , and by juries , who are the pulse of the body politic . A sailor told me that on a passage from Gibraltar to Boston , his vessel neared the Gulf Stream with a light breeze , clear sky , and studding-sails out , alow and aloft ; while , before it , was along line of heavy , black clouds , lying like a bank upon the water , and a vessel coming out of it , under double-reefed topsails , and with royal yards sent down . The abundance of wood and water , the extreme fertility of its shores , the excellence of its climate , which is as near to being perfect as any in the world , and its facilities for navigation , affording the best anchoring-grounds in the whole western coast of America , all fit it for a place of great importance ; and , indeed , it has attracted much attention , for the settlement of " Yerba Buena , " where we lay at anchor , made chiefly by Americans and English , and which bids fair to become the most important trading place on the coast , at this time began to supply traders , Russian ships , and whalers , with their stores of wheat and frijoles . It corresponded , too , with the desolate character of her situation ; - alone , as she was , battling with storms , wind , and ice , at this extremity of the globe , and in almost constant night . The atmosphere , which had previously been clear and cold , for the last few hours grew damp , and had a disagreeable , wet chilliness in it ; and the man who came from the wheel said he heard the captain tell " the passenger " that the thermometer had fallen several degrees since morning , which he could not account for in any other way than by supposing that there must be ice near us ; though such a thing had never been heard of in this latitude , at this season of the year . We were all day at this work , and towards sundown , having loaded the vessel as deep as she would bear , we hove up our anchor , and made sail , beating out the bay . The manufacturer shall send such notification by first class mail to the last known address of the owner , user , purchaser , dealer , lessor , or consumer within fourteen days after learning of such a defect . All hands were kept on deck to watch the effect of the change . Waiting for a good opportunity , the halyards were manned and the yard hoisted fairly up to the block ; but when the mate came to shake the catspaw out of the downhaul , and we began to boom-end the sail , it shook the ship to her centre .