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They were all watching it carefully , for sailors have a notion that if the corposant rises in the rigging , it is a sign of fair weather , but if it comes lower down , there will be a storm . The Saturday night before our sailing , I spent an hour in the oven , and took leave of my Kanaka friends ; and , really , this was the only thing connected with leaving California which was in any way unpleasant . 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 . This kind of ice is much more dangerous than the large islands , for those can be seen at a distance , and kept away from ; but the field-ice , floating in great quantities , and covering the ocean for miles and miles , in pieces of every size-large , flat , and broken cakes , with here and there an island rising twenty and thirty feet , and as large as the ship 's hull ; - this , it is very difficult to sheer clear of . After some time , - which seemed forever , - we got the weather side stowed after a fashion , and went over to leeward for another trial . I slept on till all hands were called in the morning ; for , fortunately for me , the Indians , intentionally , or from mistaking their orders , had gone off alone in the night , and were far out of sight . Having no money , and all his clothes and other things being in the chest , on board , and being a stranger , he became tired and hungry , and ventured down toward the shipping , to see if the vessel had sailed . In the afternoon , I was below with Mr. H - - - the third mate , and two others , filling the bread locker in the steerage from the casks , when a bright gleam of sunshine broke out and shone down the companion-way and through the sky-light , lighting up everything below , and sending a warm glow through the heart of every one . If the hat was thrown off , the offer was refused , and the gentleman was obliged to pick up his hat amid a general laugh . 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 . 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 . If the look-out was caught napping , the whole watch was kept awake . And we were glad enough to get this rest ; for under the " all hands " system , out of every other thirty-six hours , we had only four below ; and even an hour 's sleep was a gain not to be neglected .