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[lemma=survive] [lemma=will | tag=NNS] | [tag=IN]
[lemma=survive] [lemma=will | tag=NNS] | [tag=NNS]
Eight hours of the night , our watch was on deck , and during the whole of that time we kept a bright look-out : one man on each bow , another in the bunt of the fore yard , the third mate on the scuttle , one on each quarter , and a man always standing by the wheel . The water-party were gone three days , during which time they narrowly escaped being carried out to sea , and passed one day on an island , where one of them shot a deer , great numbers of which overrun the islands and hills of San Francisco Bay . Our rigging was all examined and overhauled , and mended , or replaced with new , where it was necessary : new and strong bobstays fitted in the place of the chain ones , which were worn out ; the spritsail yard and martingale guys and back-ropes set well taught ; bran new fore and main braces rove ; top-gallant sheets , and wheel-ropes , made of green hide , laid up in the form of rope , were stretched and fitted ; and new top-sail clewlines , etc ., rove ; new fore-topmast back-stays fitted ; and other preparations made , in good season , that the ropes might have time to stretch and become limber before we got into cold weather . This was the best consolation " Sails " had to offer , but it did not seem to be just the thing the carpenter wanted ; for , during several days , he was very much dejected , and bore with difficulty the jokes of the sailors , and with still more difficulty their attempts at advice and consolation , of most of which the sailmaker 's was a good specimen . At ten o'clock the bride went up with her sister to the confessional , dressed in deep black . The carpenter had been married just before leaving Boston , and during the voyage had talked much about his wife , and had to bear and forbear , as every man , known to be married , must , aboard ship ; yet the certainty of hearing from his wife by the first ship , seemed to keep up his spirits . 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 . At the same moment that we sprang aloft , a dozen hands sprang into the rigging of the California , and in an instant were all over her yards ; and her sails , too , were ready to be dropped at the word . I got my oil-cloth clothes , south-wester , and thick boots all ready , and turned into my hammock early , determined to get some sleep in advance , as the boat was to be alongside before daybreak . 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 . This pacified them a little , but Jack had got a notion that a poor lad was to be imposed upon , and did not distinguish very clearly ; and though I knew that I was in no fault , and , in fact , had barely escaped the grossest injustice , yet I felt that my berth was getting to be a disagreeable one . He said that Hope was not strictly one of the crew , but as he was in our employ when taken sick , he should have the medicines ; and he got them and gave them to me , with leave to go ashore at night . As we had now been about a year on the coast , it was time to think of the voyage home ; and knowing that the last two or three months of our stay would be very busy ones , and that we should never have so good an opportunity to work for ourselves as the present , we all employed our evenings in making clothes for the passage home , and more especially for Cape Horn . 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 . " No one called for it more loudly than I , for the complete absurdity of the execution , and the sailors ' perfect satisfaction in it , were ludicrous beyond measure . A regulation of the port forbids any ballast to be thrown overboard ; accordingly , our long-boat was lined inside with rough boards and brought alongside the gangway , but where one tub-full went into the boat , twenty went overboard . Besides S - - - and myself , there were only five in the forecastle ; who , together with four boys in the steerage , the sailmaker , carpenter , etc ., composed the whole crew . Arrived at San Pedro on the fourth day , and came-to in the old place , a league from shore , with no other vessel in port , and the prospect of three weeks , or more , of dull life , rolling goods up a slippery hill , carrying hides on our heads over sharp stones , and , perhaps , slipping for a south-easter . During our watch on deck , which was from twelve to four , the wind came out ahead , with a pelting storm of hail and sleet , and we lay hove-to , under a close-reefed main topsail , the whole watch .