Two Years Before the Mast; a Personal Narrative of Life At Sea
Two Years Before the Mast; a Personal Narrative of Life At Sea
Dana Richard Henry
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Louis Rey, which the third mate said was only fifteen miles from San Diego. At sunset on the second day, we had a large and well wooded head- land directly before us, behind which lay the little harbor of San Diego. We were becalmed off this point all night, but the next morning, which was Saturday, the 14th of March, having a good breeze, we stood round the point, and hauling our wind, brought the little harbor, which is rather the outlet of a small river, right before us. Every one was anxiou...s to get a view of the new place. A chain of high hills, beginning at the point (which was on our larboard hand, coming in), protected the harbor on the north and west, and ran off into the interior, as far as the eye could reach. On the other sides, the land was low, and green, but without trees. The entrance is so narrow as to admit but one vessel at a time, the current swift, and the channel runs so near to a low stony point that the ship's sides appeared almost to touch it. There was no town in sight, but on the smooth sand beach, abreast, and within a cable's length of which three vessels lay moored, were four large houses, built of rough TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST 119 boards, and looking like the great bams in which ice is stored on the borders of the large ponds near Boston ; with piles of hides standing round them, and men in red shirts and large straw hats, walking in and out of the doors.
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