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The mission of San Francisco near the anchorage , has no trade at all , but those of San Jose , Santa Clara , and others , situated on large creeks or rivers which run into the bay , and distant between fifteen and forty miles from the anchorage , do a greater business in hides than any in California . " What 's that ? 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 . When this was fast , we laid down on deck , manned the halyards to leeward , nearly up to our knees in water , set the topsail , and then laid aloft on the main topsail yard , and reefed that sail in the same manner ; for , as I have before stated , we were a good deal reduced in numbers , and , to make it worse , the carpenter , only two days before , cut his leg with an axe , so that he could not go aloft . The next day , all hands were turned-to upon unbending the old sails , and getting up the new ones ; for a ship , unlike people on shore , puts on her best suit in bad weather . Having kept close in shore , for the land-breeze , we passed the mission of San Juan Capestrano the same night , and saw distinctly , by the bright moonlight , the hill which I had gone down by a pair of halyards in search of a few paltry hides .