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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 . " 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 . At length , according to his own account , being desirous of returning home , he went to a shipping-office , where the shipping articles of the California were open . Having no money , and all his clothes and other things being in the chest , on board , and being a stranger , he became tired and hungry , and ventured down toward the shipping , to see if the vessel had sailed . 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 . A short , square-built man , in a rough grey jacket , with a speaking-trumpet in hand , stood in the weather hammock nettings . He was dressed in white pantaloons neatly made , a short jacket of dark silk , gaily figured , white stockings and thin morocco slippers upon his very small feet . As soon as she rose out of it , I looked aft , and everything forward of the main-mast , except the long-boat , which was griped and doublelashed down to the ring-bolts , was swept off clear . " and the like , might do for common pulls , but in an emergency , when we wanted a heavy , " raise-the-dead " pull , which should start the beams of the ship , there was nothing like " Time for us to go ! The usual outfit of pumps , white stockings , loose white duck trowsers , blue jackets , clean checked shirts , black kerchiefs , hats well varnished , with a fathom of black ribbon over the left eye , a silk handkerchief flying from the outside jacket pocket , and four or five dollars tied up in the back of the neckerchief , and we were " all right . I had been on the look-out for a moment to jump below and clap on a thick jacket and south-wester ; but when we got on deck we found that eight bells had been struck , and the other watch gone below , so that there were two hours of dog watch for us , and a plenty of work to do . Ben was a poor English boy , a stranger in Boston , and without friends or money ; and being an active , willing lad , and a good sailor for his years , was a general favorite .