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There is an abundance of technology that attempts to aid communication by persons with hearing loss . As we drew into it , the sky became cloudy , the sea high , and everything had the appearance of the going off , or the coming on , of a storm . Misfortune , extravagance , and the want of funds , or any manner of getting interest on money , soon eat the estate up , and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished , poor , and proud , and without any office or occupation , to lead the life of most young men of the better families - dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand ; ambitious at heart , and impotent in act ; often pinched for bread ; keeping up an appearance of style , when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street , and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place . This often gives an appearance of want of feeling , and even of cruelty . The atmosphere , which had previously been clear and cold , for the last few hours grew damp , and had a disagreeable , wet chilliness in it ; and the man who came from the wheel said he heard the captain tell " the passenger " that the thermometer had fallen several degrees since morning , which he could not account for in any other way than by supposing that there must be ice near us ; though such a thing had never been heard of in this latitude , at this season of the year . No merchant vessel looks better than an Indiaman , or a Cape Horner , after a long voyage ; and many captains and mates will stake their reputation for seamanship upon the appearance of their ship when she hauls into the dock . The Diana 's crews - a set of worthless outcasts , who had been picked up at the islands from the refuse of whale-ships , - were all as drunk as beasts , and had a set-to , on the beach , with their captain , who was in no better state than themselves . We had less snow and hail than when we were farther to the westward , but we had an abundance of what is worse to a sailor in cold weather - drenching rain . The abundance of wood and water , the extreme fertility of its shores , the excellence of its climate , which is as near to being perfect as any in the world , and its facilities for navigation , affording the best anchoring-grounds in the whole western coast of America , all fit it for a place of great importance ; and , indeed , it has attracted much attention , for the settlement of " Yerba Buena , " where we lay at anchor , made chiefly by Americans and English , and which bids fair to become the most important trading place on the coast , at this time began to supply traders , Russian ships , and whalers , with their stores of wheat and frijoles . The curse of a people calling themselves Christian , seems to follow them everywhere ; and even here , in this obscure place , lay two young islanders , whom I had left strong , active young men , in the vigor of health , wasting away under a disease , which they would never have known but for their intercourse with Christianized Mexico and people from Christian America . Soon after eight o'clock , the appearance of the ship gave evidence that this was the first Sunday we had yet had in fine weather .