The wind continued westerly, and the weather and sea less rough since the day on which we shipped the heavy sea, and we were making great progress under studding-sails, with our light sails all set, keeping a little to the eastward of south; for the captain, depending upon westerly winds off the Cape, had kept so far to the westward that, though we were within about five hundred miles of the latitude of Cape Horn, we were nearly seventeen hundred miles to the westward of it.  Through the rest of the week we continued on with a fair wind, gradually, as we got more to the southward, keeping a more easterly course, and bringing the wind on our larboard quarter, until—­

Sunday, June 26th, when, having a fine, clear day, the captain got a lunar observation, as well as his meridian altitude, which made us in lat. 47 50’ S., lon. 113 49’ W.; Cape Horn bearing, according to my calculations, E. S. E. 1/2 E., and distant eighteen hundred miles.

Monday, June 27th.  During the first part of this day the wind continued fair, and, as we were going before it, it did not feel very cold, so that we kept at work on deck in our common clothes and round jackets.  Our watch had an afternoon watch below for the first time since leaving San Diego; and, having inquired of the third mate what the latitude was at noon, and made our usual guesses as to the time she would need to be up with the Horn, we turned-in for a nap.  We were sleeping away ``at the rate of knots,’’ when three knocks on the scuttle and ``All hands, ahoy!’’ started us from our berths.  What could be the matter?  It did not appear to be blowing hard, and, looking up through the scuttle, we could see that it was a clear day overhead; yet the watch were taking in sail.  We thought there must be a sail in sight, and that we were about to heave-to and speak her; and were just congratulating ourselves upon it,—­ for we had seen neither sail nor land since we left port,—­ when we heard the mate’s voice on deck (he turned-in ``all-standing,’’ and was always on deck the moment he was called) singing out to the men who were taking in the studding-sails, and asking where his watch were.  We did not wait for a second call, but tumbled up the ladder; and there, on the starboard bow, was a bank of mist, covering sea and sky, and driving directly for us.  I had seen the same before in my passage round in the Pilgrim, and knew what it meant, and that there was no time to be lost.  We had nothing on but thin clothes, yet there was not a moment to spare, and at it we went.

The boys of the other watch were in the tops, taking in the top-gallant studding-sails and the lower and topmast studding-sails were coming down by the run.  It was nothing but ``haul down and clew up,’’ until we got all the studding-sails in, and the royals, flying jib, and mizzen top-gallant-sail furled, and the ship kept off a little, to take the squall.  The fore and main top-gallant sails were still on her, for the ``old man’’ did not mean