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We hardly knew whether we were on or off, he wrote. He spent ten consecutive days reefed, and a few hove to. Our clothes were all wet through, and the only change was from wet to more wet. On the misery the wet entailed: snow is blinding, and very bad when coming upon a coast, but for genuine discomfort, give me rain with freezing replica Vacheron Constantin watch weather.By and by, his experiences turned to hardened wisdom: No time is allowed on board ship for sentiment. And:Whatever your feelings may be, you must make a joke of everything at sea; and if you were to fall from aloft and be caught in the belly of a sail, and thus saved from instant death, it would not do to look at all disturbed, or to make serious matter of it.
When he arrived in San Francisco, there was no bridge, no city; just the Spanish mission (still here), and one other boat in the whole bay. There was also constant rain, cold, fog, and strong currents. But he recognized the splendor of this area. If california ever becomes a prosperous country, he wrote, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. He called the bay fit for a place of great importance.Later, he was amazed that a letter made it replica Louis Vuitton watch from California to Boston, via an overland route from Mazatlan to Veracruz, in 75 days the shortest communication ever yet made across the country. Now theres history. After far too much time sailing up and down the California coast, he packed up, and headed home, loaded down with 40,000 hides, 30,000 horns, several barrels of otter and beaver skins, spare spars, a dozen pigs, a dozen sheep, 40 chickens, as well as stores food and water for five month of sailing.
