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The captain , who sleeps all the daytime , and comes and goes at night as he chooses , can have his brandy and water in the cabin , and his hot coffee at the galley ; while Jack , who has to stand through everything , and work in wet and cold , can have nothing to wet his lips or warm his stomach . I read nearly all day , until sundown ; when , as soon as supper was over , as I had nearly finished , they got a light from the galley ; and by skipping what was less interesting , I carried them through to the marriage of Everard , and the restoration of Charles the Second , before eight o'clock . 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 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 . If the design of those who are writing on this subject is merely to draw public attention to it , and to discourage the practice of flogging , and bring it into disrepute , it is well ; and , indeed , whatever may be the end they have in view , the mere agitation of the question will have that effect , and , so far , must do good . I have often known a man 's life to be saved by an instant of time , or by the merest chance , - the swinging of a rope , - and no notice taken of it .