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One of them , however , an old salt , who had seen something more of the world ashore , set all to rights , as he thoughts - " Oh , ' vast there ! Friday , and a part of Saturday , we were engaged in this work , until we had thrown out all but what we wanted under our cargo on the passage home ; when , as the next day was Sunday , and a good day for smoking ship , we cleared everything out of the cabin and forecastle , made a slow fire of charcoal , birch bark , brimstone , and other matters , on the ballast in the bottom of the hold , calked up the hatches and every open seam , and pasted over the cracks of the windows , and the slides of the scuttles , and companionway . I stepped back a little , when she went up behind the Don , and with one hand knocked off his huge sombrero , and at the same instant , with the other , broke the egg upon his head , and springing behind me , was out of sight in a moment . We got under weigh on the 10th , bound up to San Pedro , and had three days of calm and head winds , making but little progress . A pretty young girl was dancing , named , after what would appear to us the sacrilegious custom of the country - Espiritu Santo , when a young man went behind her and placed his hat directly upon her head , letting it fall down over her eyes , and sprang back among the crowd . They looked as grave as though they were going through some religious ceremony , their faces as little excited as their limbs ; and on the whole , instead of the spirited , fascinating Spanish dances which I had expected , I found the Californian fandango , on the part of the women at least , a lifeless affair . 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 ! Having been long enough below to get my hands well warmed and softened , the first handling of the ropes was rather tough ; but a few days hardened them , and as soon as I got my mouth open wide enough to take in a piece of salt beef and hard bread , I was all right again . The women bring a great number of these secretly about them , and the amusement is to break one upon the head of a gentleman when his back is turned . Tell him to eat salt junk and hard bread , like the rest of them . No thanks , thought I , as we left the sandy shores in the distance , for the hours I have walked over your stones , barefooted , with hides on my head ; - for the burdens I have carried up your steep , muddy hill ; - for the duckings in your surf ; and for the long days and longer nights passed on your desolate hill , watching piles of hides , hearing the sharp bark of your eternal coati , and the dismal hooting of your owls . The top-gallant and royal yards were accordingly struck , the flying jib-boom rigged in , and the top-gallant masts sent down on deck , and all lashed together by the side of the long-boat . The affair remained in this state until four o'clock , when an order came forward for all hands to come aft upon the quarter-deck . In about ten minutes they came forward again , and the whole affair had been blown .