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However , we were spared any further experience on the point ; for the next day , when we must have been near the Cape of Pillars , which is the south-west point of the mouth of the straits , a gale set in from the eastward , with a heavy fog , so that we could not see half of the ship 's length ahead . Thick stockings and drawers were darned and patched ; mittens dragged from the bottom of the chest and mended ; comforters made for the neck and ears ; old flannel shirts cut up to line monkey jackets ; southwesters lined with flannel , and a pot of paint smuggled forward to give them a coat on the outside ; and everything turned to hand ; so that , although two years had left us but a scanty wardrobe , yet the economy and invention which necessity teaches a sailor , soon put each of us in pretty good trim for bad weather , even before we had seen the last of the fine . Day after day , Captain Faucon went up to the hill to look out for us , and at last , gave us up , thinking we must have gone down in the gale which we experienced off Point Conception , and which had blown with great fury over the whole coast , driving ashore several vessels in the snuggest ports . 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 . My feet were just off the stanchion , when she struck fairly into the middle of the sea , and it washed her fore and aft , burying her in the water . It had now set in for a steady gale from the south-west ; but we were not yet far enough to the southward to make a fair wind of it , for we must give Terra del Fuego a wide berth . We must come down from our heights , and leave our straight paths , for the byways and low places of life , if we would learn truths by strong contrasts ; and in hovels , in forecastles , and among our own outcasts in foreign lands , see what has been wrought upon our fellow-creatures by accident , hardship , or vice . Here we were , not yet within a thousand miles of the latitude of Cape Horn , and our decks swept by a sea not one half so high as we must expect to find there . I read nearly all day , until sundown ; when , as soon as supper was over , as I had nearly finished , they got a light from the galley ; and by skipping what was less interesting , I carried them through to the marriage of Everard , and the restoration of Charles the Second , before eight o'clock .