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The next day came , and a week passed , and nearly a fortnight , when , one day , going ashore , we saw a tall man , who looked like our friend the tailor , getting out of the back of an Indian 's cart , which had just come down from the pueblo . He said that his parents did not live together , and he seemed to have been ill treated by his father . The second mate of the Pilgrim told me that they had an old gentleman on board who knew me , and came from the college that I had been in . " This is the same place where the Rosa got ashore , " observed the redheaded second mate , most mal-a-propos . Having washed down decks and got our breakfast , the two vessels lay side by side , in complete readiness for sea , our ensigns hanging from the peaks , and our tall spars reflected from the glassy surface of the river , which , since sunrise , had been unbroken by a ripple . A tall , stately Don , with immense grey whiskers , and a look of great importance , was standing before me , when I felt a light hand on my shoulder , and turning round , saw Donna Angustia , ( whom we all knew , as she had been up to Monterey , and down again , in the Alert , ) with her finger upon her lip , motioning me gently aside . The rail , fore and aft , the windlass , capstan , the sides of the ship , and every vacant place on deck , were covered with wet hides , on the least sign of an interval for drying . Beside these two men of ours , the second officer of the California and the carpenter of the Pilgrim broke down under the work , and the latter died at Santa Barbara . Mittens , too , we wore on deck , but it would not do to go aloft with them on , for it was impossible to work with them , and , being wet and stiff , they might let a man slip overboard , for all the hold be could get upon a rope ; so , we were obliged to work with bare hands , which , as well as our faces , were often cut with the hail-stones , which fell thick and large . Our crew was somewhat diminished ; for a man and a boy had gone in the Pilgrim ; another was second mate of the Ayacucho ; and a third , the oldest man of the crew , had broken down under the hard work and constant exposure on the coast , and , having had a stroke of the palsy , was left behind at the hide-house under the charge of Captain Arthur . Upon the whole , ours was the best berth ; for though the water was nipping cold , early in the morning and late at night , and being so continually wet was rather an exposure , yet we got rid of the constant dust and dirt from the beating of the hides , and being all of us young and hearty , did not mind the exposure . Shirts , frocks , drawers , trowsers , jackets , stockings , of every shape and color , wet and dirty - many of them mouldy from having been lying a long time wet in a foul corner - these were all washed and scrubbed out , and finally towed overboard for half an hour ; and then made fast in the rigging to dry . We did not wait for a second call , but tumbled up the ladder ; and there , on the starboard bow , was a bank of mist , covering sea and sky , and driving directly for us . As we were obliged to carry the hides on our heads from fear of their getting wet , we each had a piece of sheepskin sewed into the inside of our hats , with the wool next to our heads , and thus were able to bear the weight , day after day , which would otherwise have soon worn off our hair , and borne hard upon our skulls .