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We passed directly under the high cliff on which the Presidio is built , and stood into the middle of the bay , from whence we could see small bays , making up into the interior , on every side ; large and beautifully-wooded islands ; and the mouths of several small rivers . He had travelled overland to the North-west Coast , and come down in a small vessel to Monterey . A little boating and beach work in the morning ; then twenty or thirty men down in a close hold , where we were obliged to sit down and slide about , passing hides , and rowsing about the great steeves , tackles , and dogs , singing out at the falls , and seeing the ship filling up every day . This was pretty tough work for four or five hands , in the face of a gale which almost took us off the yards , and with ropes so stiff with ice that it was almost impossible to bend them . As we left the gale behind us , the reefs were shaken out of the topsails , and sail made as fast as she could bear it ; and every time all hands were sent to the halyards , a song was called for , and we hoisted away with a will . This was a great windfall , and as all could not read it at once , I , being the scholar of the company , was appointed reader . Just before midnight , a light land-breeze sprang up , which carried us well along ; and at four o'clock , thinking ourselves to the northward of Race Point , we hauled upon the wind and stood into the bay , west-northwest , for Boston light , and commenced firing guns for a pilot .