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I spent an evening on board , and found them making the best of the matter , and determined to rough it out as they might ; but my friend S - - - was determined to go home in the ship , if money or interest could bring it to pass . If I had her in your trim , she would have been out of sight by this time . As soon as it began to slacken , she ranged a little ahead , and the order was given to loose the royals . As soon as supper was over and the kids cleared away , and each one had taken his smoke , we seated ourselves on our chests round the lamp , which swung from a beam , and each one went to work in his own way , some making hats , others trowsers , others jackets , etc ., etc .; and no one was idle . They swore they would not go aboard , and went back to the town , were stripped and beaten , and lodged in the calabozo , until the next day , when the captain bought them out . It was just seven months since they left Boston , which seemed but yesterday to us . " The last week , we had been occupied in taking in a supply of wood and water for the passage home , and bringing on board the spare spars , sails , etc. I was sent off with a party of Indians to fill the water-casks , at a spring , about three miles from the shipping , and near the town , and was absent three days , living at the town , and spending the daytime in filling the casks and transporting them on ox-carts to the landing-place , whence they were taken on board by the crew with boats . It was not easy to sleep , lying , as I did , with my head directly against the bows , which might be dashed in by an island of ice , brought down by the very next sea that struck her . The mate walked the deck , looking at the sails , and then over the side to see the foam fly by her , slapping his hands upon his thighs and talking to the ship - " Hurrah , you jade , you've got the scent ! you 'll see her work herself loose in a week or two , and then she 'll walk up to Cape Horn like a race-horse . Our watch had an afternoon watch below , for the first time since leaving San Diego , and having inquired of the third mate what the latitude was at noon , and made our usual guesses as to the time she would need , to be up with the Horn , we turned in , for a nap . In addition to this , she had been steeved so thoroughly , and was so bound by the compression of her cargo , forced into her by so powerful machinery , that she was like a man in a straight-jacket , and would be but a dull sailer , until she had worked herself loose . This day the sun rose fair , but it ran too low in the heavens to give any heat , or thaw out our sails and rigging ; yet the sight of it was pleasant ; and we had a steady " reef topsail breeze " from the westward . At dark , the captain called all hands aft , and told them that not a man was to leave the deck that night ; that the ship was in the greatest danger ; any cake of ice might knock a hole in her , or she might run on an island and go to pieces . In addition to these , they had picked up at the theatres and other places a few songs of a little more genteel cast , which they were very proud of ; and I shall never forget hearing an old salt , who had broken his voice by hard drinking on shore , and bellowing from the mast-head in a hundred north-westers , with all manner of ungovernable trills and quavers - in the high notes , breaking into a rough falsetto - and in the low ones , growling along like the dying away of the boatswain 's " all hands ahoy ! * The pigs were left for the latter part of the voyage , for they are sailors , and can stand all weathers . She sailed early in December for San Diego and intermedios . They had just got to sleep toward morning , when they were turned up with the rest , and kept at work all day in the water , carrying hides , their heads aching so that they could hardly stand .