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If the hat was thrown off , the offer was refused , and the gentleman was obliged to pick up his hat amid a general laugh . " I comforted him as well as I could , and promised to ask the captain to help him from the medicine-chest , and told him I had no doubt the captain would do what he could for him , as he had worked in our employ for several years , both on shore and aboard our vessels on the coast . It was now the first part of May ; and two months would bring us off the cape in July , which is the worst month in the year there ; when the sun rises at nine and sets at three , giving eighteen hours night , and there is snow and rain , gales and high seas , in abundance . Finding himself disappointed at headquarters , he edged along forward to the mate , who was overseeing some work on the forecastle , and tried to begin a yarn ; but it would not do . She proved to be the brig Convoy , from the Sandwich Islands , engaged in otter hunting , among the islands which lie along the coast . Having a fine wind , we were soon up with and passed the latitude of the Cape , and having stood far enough to the southward to give it a wide berth , we began to stand to the eastward , with a good prospect of being round and steering to the northward on the other side , in a very few days . But the chest showed like the end of a long voyage , for there was nothing that would answer but a few drops of laudanum , which must be saved for any emergency ; so I had only to bear the pain as well as I could . The carpenter had been married just before leaving Boston , and during the voyage had talked much about his wife , and had to bear and forbear , as every man , known to be married , must , aboard ship ; yet the certainty of hearing from his wife by the first ship , seemed to keep up his spirits . Toward morning , the rain ceased , and the air became sensibly colder , so that we found sleep impossible , and sat up , watching for daybreak . We continued at work in this manner until the lower hold was filled to within four feet of the beams , when all hands were called aboard to commence steeving . At the same time he cashed the order , which was endorsed to him , * and the next morning , the lad went aboard the brig , apparently in good spirits , having shaken hands with each of us and wished us a pleasant passage home , jingling the money in his pockets , and calling out , " Never say die , while there 's a shot in the locker . Few words were spoken between the watches as they shifted , the wheel was relieved , the mate took his place on the quarter-deck , the look-outs in the bows ; and each man had his narrow space to walk fore and aft in , or , rather , to swing himself forward and back in , from one belaying pin to another , - for the decks were too slippery with ice and water to allow of much walking . They looked as grave as though they were going through some religious ceremony , their faces as little excited as their limbs ; and on the whole , instead of the spirited , fascinating Spanish dances which I had expected , I found the Californian fandango , on the part of the women at least , a lifeless affair . All the hides , too , that came down in the boats , were soaked with water , and unfit to put below , so that we were obliged to trice them up to dry , in the intervals of sunshine or wind , upon all parts of the vessel . I went aboard and turned into my hammock , but I could not sleep . I tried to find the church , in order to see the worship , but was told that there was no service , except a mass early in the morning ; so we went about the town , visiting the Americans and English , and the natives whom we had know when we were here before . It was in sight all the afternoon ; and when we got to leeward of it , the wind died away , so that we lay-to quite near it for a greater part of the night . No one on board had been through the straits but I had in my chest an account of the passage of the ship A. He had depended upon going home in the ship ; and from Boston , was going immediately to Liverpool , to see his friends .