Against these, we beat slowly up to Santa Barbara- a distance of
about ninety miles- in three days. There we found, lying at anchor,
the large Genoese ship which we saw in the same place, on the first
day of our coming upon the coast. She had been up to San Francisco,
or, as it is called, "chock up to windward," had stopped at Monterey
on her way down, and was shortly to proceed to San Pedro and San
Diego, and thence, taking in her cargo, to sail for Valparaiso and
Cadiz. She was a large, clumsy ship, and with her topmasts stayed
forward, and high poop-deck, looked like an old woman with a crippled
back. It was now the close of Lent, and on Good Friday she had all her
yards a'cock-bill, which is customary among Catholic vessels. Some
also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with
keel-hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard-arms.
CHAPTER XVIII
EASTER SUNDAY--"SAIL HO!"--WHALES--SAN JUAN--ROMANCE OF
HIDE-DROGHING--SAN DIEGO AGAIN
The next Sunday was Easter Sunday, and as there had been no
liberty at San Pedro, it was our turn to go ashore and misspend
another Sabbath.
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