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Toward morning , the rain ceased , and the air became sensibly colder , so that we found sleep impossible , and sat up , watching for daybreak . Here he went dead to leeward among the pulperias , gambling rooms , etc ., and came down to San Pedro , to be moral by being out of temptation . The sun shone bright as long as it was up , only that a scud of black clouds was ever and anon driving across it . It seemed to be drifting slowly toward the north , so that we kept away and avoided it . They had just got to sleep toward morning , when they were turned up with the rest , and kept at work all day in the water , carrying hides , their heads aching so that they could hardly stand . Finding neither willing to make an offer for reconciliation , he called all hands up , ( for the captain was ashore , and he could do as he chose aboard , ) ranged the crew in the waist , marked a line on the deck , brought the two boys up to it , making them " toe the mark ; " then made the bight of a rope fast to a belaying pin , and stretched it across the deck , bringing it just above their waists . After I had got through these , I allowed myself a more general range among everything that I could remember , both in prose and verse . A bar stretches across the mouth of the harbor , with water enough to float common vessels , but , being low in the water , and having kept well to leeward , as we were bound to the southward , we had stuck fast , while the California , being light , had floated over . A regulation of the port forbids any ballast to be thrown overboard ; accordingly , our long-boat was lined inside with rough boards and brought alongside the gangway , but where one tub-full went into the boat , twenty went overboard . A pretty young girl was dancing , named , after what would appear to us the sacrilegious custom of the country - Espiritu Santo , when a young man went behind her and placed his hat directly upon her head , letting it fall down over her eyes , and sprang back among the crowd . The main body of the mass was , as I have said , of an indigo color , its base crusted with frozen foam ; and as it grew thin and transparent toward the edges and top , its color shaded off from a deep blue to the whiteness of snow . 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 . " Lest his purpose should cool , I signed an order for the sum upon the owners in Boston , gave him all the clothes I could spare , and sent him aft to the captain , to let him know what had been done . At length , a few whiffs came across the water , and , by eleven o'clock , the regular north-west wind set steadily in . Toward night the wind hauled to the southward , and headed us off our course a little , and blew a tremendous gale ; but this we did not mind , as there was no rain nor snow , and we were already under close sail . " The governor was true to his promise , and they all reached Boston before the middle of March ; the shortest communication ever yet made across the country . By the utmost exertions , we saved ourselves from being carried out to sea , and were glad to reach the leewardmost point of the island , where we came-to , and prepared to pass another night , more uncomfortable than the first , for we were loaded up to the gunwale , and had only a choice among logs and sticks for a resting-place .