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We heard her squealing and moaning one dark night , after it had been snowing and hailing for several hours , and getting into the sty , we found her nearly frozen to death . In this way , with an occasional break by relieving the wheel , heaving the log , and going to the scuttle-butt for a drink of water , the longest watch was passed away ; and I was so regular in my silent recitations , that if there was no interruption by ship 's duty , I could tell very nearly the number of bells by my progress . * The pigs were left for the latter part of the voyage , for they are sailors , and can stand all weathers . The sailor , who only takes his one glass as it is dealt out to him , is in danger of being drunk ; while the captain , who has all under his hand , and can drink as much as he chooses , and upon whose self-possession and cool judgment the lives of all depend , may be trusted with any amount , to drink at his will . Misfortune , extravagance , and the want of funds , or any manner of getting interest on money , soon eat the estate up , and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished , poor , and proud , and without any office or occupation , to lead the life of most young men of the better families - dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand ; ambitious at heart , and impotent in act ; often pinched for bread ; keeping up an appearance of style , when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street , and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place . I went below and turned-in , covering myself over with blankets and jackets , and lay in my berth nearly twenty-four hours , half asleep and half awake , stupid , from the dull pain . It was after dark when we got through , and we were not a little pleased to hear four bells struck , which sent us below for two hours , and gave us each a pot of hot tea with our cold beef and bread , and , what was better yet , a suit of thick , dry clothing , fitted for the weather , in place of our thin clothes , which were wet through and now frozen stiff . The loud , sharp voice of the captain was heard giving orders , as though for life or death , and we ran aft to the braces , not waiting to look ahead , for not a moment was to be lost . Not a drop of anything had been given them during the whole time , ( though the captain , as on the night that I was on deck , had his coffee every four hours , ) except that the mate stole a potful of coffee for two men to drink behind the galley , while he kept a look-out for the captain . After standing to the northward a few hours , we wore ship , and the wind having hauled , we stood to the southward and eastward .