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When the watch was changed I went into the steerage , and took off my hat and comforter , and showed my face to the mate , who told me to go below at once , and stay in my berth until the swelling went down , and gave the cook orders to make a poultice for me , and said he would speak to the captain . He said that his parents did not live together , and he seemed to have been ill treated by his father . In a few minutes , the force of the wind and the rising of the tide backed us into the stream , and we were on our way to our old anchoring-place , the tide setting swiftly up , and the ship barely manageable , in the light breeze . Instantly , all hands were turned up , the bow guns run out and loaded , the ensign and broad pennant set , the yards squared by lifts and braces , and everything got ready to make a good appearance . After considerable negotiating and working , he succeeded in persuading my English friend , Tom Harris , - my companion in the anchor watch - for thirty dollars , some clothes , and an intimation from Captain Faucon that he met should want a second mate before the voyage was up , to take his place in the brig as soon as she was ready to go up to windward . One morning , when we went ashore in the boat , we found him at the landing-place , dressed in California style , - a wide hat , faded velveteen trowsers , and a blanket cloak thrown over his shoulders - and wishing to go off in the boat , saying he was going to pasear with our captain a little . During the next watch it fell calm , with a drenching rain , until daybreak , when the wind came out to the westward , and the weather cleared up , and showed us the whole ocean , in the course which we should have steered , had it not been for the head wind and calm , completely blocked up with ice . This afternoon , a signal was made from the shore , and we went off in the gig , and found the agent 's clerk , who had been up to the pueblo , waiting at the landing-place , with a package under his arm , covered with brown paper , and tied carefully with twine . Then went all our hides and horns , and we left hardly anything in the ship but her ballast , and this we made preparation to heave out , the next day . First , the multiplication table and the tables of weights and measures ; then the states of the union , with their capitals ; the counties of England , with their shire towns ; the kings of England in their order ; and a large part of the peerage , which I committed from an almanac that we had on board ; and then the Kanaka numerals . Some of the ladies , upon whose heads hats had been placed , threw them off at once , and a few kept them on throughout the dance , and took them off at the end , and held them out in their hands , when the owner stepped out , bowed , and took it from them . The oldest sailor in the watch said , as he went down , - " I shall never forget that main yard ; - it beats all my going a fishing . The second mate , who came out before the mast , and was always very thick with me , had been holding a yarn with me , and just gone aft to his place on the quarter-deck , and I had resumed my usual walk to and from the windlass-end , when , suddenly , we heard a loud scream coming from ahead , apparently directly from under the bows . There was only one of our crew who had been off there in the winter , and that was in a whaleship , much lighter and higher than our ship ; yet he said they had man-killing weather for twenty days without intermission , and their decks were swept twice , and they were all glad enough to see the last of it . Then I could see them receiving their A.Bs . It seemed as though the genius of the place had been roused at finding that we had nearly slipped through his fingers , and had come down upon us with tenfold fury . Had it been fine weather , or in port , I should have gone below and lain by until my face got well ; but in such weather as this , and short-handed as we were , it was not for me to desert my post ; so I kept on deck , and stood my watch and did my duty as well as I could . I took my place at the starboard after gun , and we all waited for the signal from on shore . We made a joke of the matter and we could well laugh , for our minds were not a little relieved by its ridiculous termination . No sooner was it light than we went ashore , and began our preparations for loading our vessel . Going in , we found nearly all the people of the town - men , women , and children - collected and crowded together , leaving barely room for the dancers ; for on these occasions no invitations are given , but every one is expected to come , though there is always a private entertainment within the house for particular friends . The captain , who sleeps all the daytime , and comes and goes at night as he chooses , can have his brandy and water in the cabin , and his hot coffee at the galley ; while Jack , who has to stand through everything , and work in wet and cold , can have nothing to wet his lips or warm his stomach . One of them was not so ill ; and was moving about , smoking his pipe , and talking , and trying to keep up his spirits ; but the other , who was my friend , and Aikane - Hope , was the most dreadful object I had ever seen in my life : his eyes sunken and dead , his cheeks fallen in against his teeth , his hands looking like claws ; a dreadful cough , which seemed to rack his whole shattered system , a hollow whispering voice , and an entire inability to move himself . I stood on the forecastle , looking at the seas , which were rolling high , as far as the eye could reach , their tops white with foam , and the body of them of a deep indigo blue , reflecting the bright rays of the sun . As we left home about the same time , we had nothing to tell one another ; and , owing to our different situations on board , I saw but little of him on the passage home .