The western Avernus; . e whipped him. And to make thingsworse, one day the second mate set me to grease downthe mizzentopmast, and would not give me a bosonschair. I refused to do it, and the ensuing altercation 221 The Western Avernus was heard by the captain, who ordered him to giveme one, saying I could not be expected to do itwithout, as I was a big heavy man and not a boy.This made him thoroughly my enemy. So, after I hadbeen on board two weeks, I determined to leave,although I had signed articles, and having got mymoney due for working with lumber, which was paidevery Saturday night, and
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The western Avernus; . e whipped him. And to make thingsworse, one day the second mate set me to grease downthe mizzentopmast, and would not give me a bosonschair. I refused to do it, and the ensuing altercation 221 The Western Avernus was heard by the captain, who ordered him to giveme one, saying I could not be expected to do itwithout, as I was a big heavy man and not a boy.This made him thoroughly my enemy. So, after I hadbeen on board two weeks, I determined to leave, although I had signed articles, and having got mymoney due for working with lumber, which was paidevery Saturday night, and a little more of that due tome from the monthly wages on the pretext of wantingto buy some underclothing, I left here early on Mondaymorning with my blankets and five dollars cash, intending to see if I could not get work in the countryin the valley of the Willammette. And if I wasunsuccessful I could walk south towards California, keeping in my mind, as an ultimate possible destination, the city of San Francisco. 222 to. CHAPTER XVIII OREGON UNDERFOOT All Oregon was before me where to choose, and Idetermined on that southward course. I was sorryindeed to feel myself forced to leave the Coloma, butstill I knew it was probable I should have come toHong Kong in irons, or maybe not at all, for theoccasional brutality of American officers is incredible, and far beyond anything that occurs in English ships.So I cast loose and let myself into the stream of Destiny, that runs for ever southward to that common sink, San Francisco ; whither, sooner or later, all men on thePacific slope must come for a while, drawn by themagnetic influence of a great city. Portland, that flourishing, detestable, Chinese-riddentown, that selfish city, I left without regret. Here theybelieve that the part is greater than the whole, thattheir prosperity overweights calamity even of greaterOregon, and that all the rest was made for them. So my time in America had not come to an end, andthe terminus ad quern was u