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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 . No one on board had been through the straits but I had in my chest an account of the passage of the ship A. First , the multiplication table and the tables of weights and measures ; then the states of the union , with their capitals ; the counties of England , with their shire towns ; the kings of England in their order ; and a large part of the peerage , which I committed from an almanac that we had on board ; and then the Kanaka numerals . 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 . She , too , was associated , in my mind with Boston , the wharf from which we sailed , anchorage in the stream , leave-taking , and all such matters , which were now to me like small links connecting me with another world , which I had once been in , and which , please God , I might yet see again . We had long ago run through all our dry clothes , and as sailors have no other way of drying them than by the sun , we had nothing to do but to put on those which were the least wet . One cold , rainy evening , about eight o'clock , I received orders to get ready to start for San Jose at four the next morning , in one of these Indian boats , with four days ' provisions . The sailor 's songs for capstans and falls are of a peculiar kind , having a chorus at the end of each line . There was , however , too much to do to allow time to think ; for the gale of yesterday , and the heavy seas we met with a few days before , while we had yet ten degrees more southing to make , had convinced the captain that we had something before us which was not to be trifled with , and orders were given to send down the long topgallant masts . Here , too , Don Juan figured greatly , waltzing with the sister of the bride , ( Donna Angustia , a handsome woman and a general favorite , ) in a variety of beautiful , but , to me , offensive figures , which lasted as much as half an hour , no one else taking the floor .