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If California ever becomes a prosperous country , this bay will be the centre of its prosperity . English Ben was on the yard just after me , and took the lee earing , and the rest of our gang were soon on the yard , and began to fist the sail , when the mate considerately sent up the cook and steward , to help us . The carpenter , who was an intelligent man , and a thorough seaman , and had great influence with the crew , came down into the forecastle , and tried to induce the crew to go aft and ask the captain why he did not run , or request him , in the name of all hands , to make sail . So it goes until it is eight bells , - call the watch , - heave the log , - relieve the wheel , and go below the larboard watch . Beside this difficulty , the yard over which we lay was cased with ice , the gaskets and rope of the foot and leach of the sail as stiff and hard as a piece of suctionhose , and the sail itself about as pliable as though it had been made of sheets of sheathing copper .