S--- and myself determined to keep as much together as possible,
though we knew that it would not do to cut our shipmates; for, knowing
our birth and education, they were a little suspicious that we would
try to put on the gentleman when we got ashore, and would be ashamed
of their company; and this won't do with Jack. When the voyage is at
an end, you may do as you please, but so long as you belong to the
same vessel, you must be a shipmate to him on shore, or he will not be
a shipmate to you on board. Being forewarned of this before I went
to sea, I took no "long togs" with me, and being dressed like the
rest, in white duck trowsers, blue jacket and straw hat, which would
prevent my going in better company, and showing no disposition to
avoid them, I set all suspicion at rest. Our crew fell in with some
who belonged to the other vessels, and, sailor-like, steered for the
first grog-shop. This was a small mud building, of only one room, in
which were liquors, dry and West India goods, shoes, bread, fruits,
and everything which is vendible in California. It was kept by a
Yankee, a one-eyed man, who belonged formerly to Fall River, came
out to the Pacific in a whale-ship, left her at the Sandwich
Islands, and came to California and set up a "Pulperia.
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