If he alone had been flogged,
it would have been nothing; but that he never could see that man
without thinking what had been the means of bringing that disgrace
upon him; and John never, by word or deed, let anything escape him
to remind the other that it was by interfering to save his shipmate,
that he had suffered.
Having got all our spare room filled with hides, we hove up our anchor
and made sail for San Diego. In no operation can the disposition of
a crew be discovered better than in getting under weigh.
Where things are "done with a will," every one is like a cat aloft:
sails are loosed in an instant; each one lays out his strength on
his handspike, and the windlass goes briskly round with the loud
cry of "Yo heave ho! Heave and pawl! Heave hearty ho!" But with us,
at this time, it was all dragging work. No one went aloft beyond
his ordinary gait, and the chain came slowly in over the windlass.
The mate, between the knight-heads, exhausted all his official
rhetoric, in calls of "Heave with a will!" - "Heave hearty, men! -
heave hearty!" - "Heave and raise the dead!" - "Heave, and away!"
etc., etc.; but it would not do.
