[lemma=activity]? ([!word="''"] [lemma=a] | [□=□ | □])
[lemma=activity]? ([!word="''"] [lemma=a] | [word=□ | □])
[lemma=activity]? ([!word="''"] [lemma=a] | [tag=□ | □])
Our watch had an afternoon watch below , for the first time since leaving San Diego , and having inquired of the third mate what the latitude was at noon , and made our usual guesses as to the time she would need , to be up with the Horn , we turned in , for a nap . " This was the most lively part of our work . Mr. H ., our third mate , was ashore , and asking them particularly about the size of the sail , etc ., and learning that it was " Moku - Nui Moku , " hailed our ship , and said that the California was on the other side of the point . The music was lively , and among the tunes , we recognized several of our popular airs , which we , without doubt , have taken from the Spanish . Her crew sprang into the rigging and chains , answered us with three as loud , to which we , after the nautical custom , gave one in return . Some of the boys got so sleepy and stupefied , that they actually fell asleep at their posts ; and the young third mate , whose station was the exposed one of standing on the fore scuttle , was so stiff , when he was relieved , that he could not bend his knees to get down . " said the crew , " the captain has let you off , because you are a gentleman 's son , and have got friends , and know the owners ; and taken Ben , because he is poor , and has got nobody to say a word for him ! Many a time , when a thing goes heavy , with one fellow yo-ho-ing , a lively song , like " Heave , to the girls ! The second mate was aloft , and the third mate and myself were painting the quarter-boat , which hung by the davits , so he betook himself to us ; but we looked at one another , and the officer was too busy to say a word . Had the owners of the vessel known anything of the matter , they would have interfered at once ; but they either knew nothing of it , or heard , like the rest , that it was only an unruly boy who was sick of his bargain . 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 . The third mate remained on board the launch , two more men staid in the skiff , to load and manage it , and all the water-work , as usual , fell upon the two youngest of us ; and there we were , with frost on the ground , wading forward and back , from the beach to the boat , with armsfull of wood , barefooted , and our trowsers rolled up .