CHAPTER XXIV
SAN DIEGO AGAIN--A DESCENT--HURRIED DEPARTURE--A NEW SHIPMATE
Sunday, Oct. 11th. Set sail this morning for the leeward; passed
within sight of San Pedro, and, to our great joy, did not come to
anchor, but kept directly on to San Diego, where we arrived and moored
ship on.
Thursday, Oct. 15th. Found here the Italian ship La Rosa, from the
windward, which reported the brig Pilgrim at San Francisco, all
well. Everything was as quiet here as usual. We discharged our
hides, horns, and tallow, and were ready to sail again on the
following Sunday. I went ashore to my old quarters, and found the gang
at the hide-house going on in the even tenor of their way, and spent
an hour or two, after dark, at the oven, taking a whiff with my old
Kanaka friends, who really seemed glad to see me again, and saluted me
as the Aikane of the Kanakas. I was grieved to find that my poor dog
Bravo was dead. He had sickened and died suddenly, the very day
after I sailed in the Alert.
Sunday was again, as usual, our sailing day, and we got under
weigh with a stiff breeze, which reminded us that it was the latter
part of the autumn, and time to expect south-easters once more.
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