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He turned fiercely upon me , and tried to look me down , and face me out of my statement ; but finding that that would n't do , and that I was entering upon my defence in such a way as would show to the other two that he was in the wrong , - he changed his ground , and pointed to the shipping papers of the Pilgrim , from which my name had never been erased , and said that there was my name , - that I belonged to her , - that he had an absolute discretionary power ; - and , in short , that I must be on board the Pilgrim by the next morning with my chest and hammock , or have some one ready to go in my place , and that he would not hear another word from me . Toward noon we procured horses , and rode out to the Carmel mission , which is about a league from the town , where from the town , where we got something in the way of a dinner - beef , eggs , frijoles , tortillas , and some middling wine - from the mayordomo , who , of course , refused to make any charge , as it was the Lord 's gift , yet received our present , as a gratuity , with a low bow , a touch of the hat , and " Dios se lo pague ! I went below and turned-in , covering myself over with blankets and jackets , and lay in my berth nearly twenty-four hours , half asleep and half awake , stupid , from the dull pain . All eyes were aft upon the captain , who was walking the deck , with , every now and then , a look to windward . It was an interesting sight , too , to see our noble ship , dismantled of all her top-hamper of long tapering masts and yards , and boom pointed with spear-head , which ornamented her in port ; and all that canvas , which a few days before had covered her like a cloud , from the truck to the water 's edge , spreading far out beyond her hull on either side , now gone ; and she , stripped , like a wrestler for the fight . Nearly two hundred hours ( as we had calculated it ) had we walked the ship 's deck together , at anchor watch , when all hands were below , and talked over and over every subject which came within the ken of either of us . Then , feeling of all our clothes , we picked out those which were the least wet , and put them on , so as to be ready for a call , and turned-in , covered ourselves up with blankets , and slept until three knocks on the scuttle and the dismal sound of " All starbowlines ahoy ! His is one of those cases which are more numerous than those suppose , who have never lived anywhere but in their own homes , and never walked but in one line from their cradles to their graves . Fortunately a sailor , not being a free agent in work aboard ship , is not accountable ; yet the fact of being constantly employed , without thought , in such things , begets an indifference to the rights of others . " And there lay , floating in the ocean , several miles off , an immense , irregular mass , its top and points covered with snow , and its center of a deep indigo color . Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter , for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester , which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century . The situation was offered him only a few hours before we sailed ; and though he must give up returning to America , yet I have no doubt that the change from a dog 's berth to an officer 's , was too agreeable to his feelings to be declined . A list of all those familiar names , ( beginning as usual with Abbot , and ending with W ., ) which , as I read them over , one by one , brought up their faces and characters as I had known them in the various scenes of college life . This was an important day in our almanac , for it was on this day that we were first assured that our voyage was really drawing to a close . The ship wore round fairly , the yards were steadied , and we stood off on the other tack , leaving behind us , directly under our larboard quarter , a large ice island , peering out of the mist , and reaching high above our tops , while astern ; and on either side of the island , large tracts of field-ice were dimly seen , heaving and rolling in the sea . Those who had no south-wester caps , made them , and several of the crew made themselves tarpaulin jackets and trowsers , lined on the inside with flannel . 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 . The Saturday night before our sailing , I spent an hour in the oven , and took leave of my Kanaka friends ; and , really , this was the only thing connected with leaving California which was in any way unpleasant .