Captain Nidiver's Memoir - The Life and Adventures of George Nitive

Four mission indians found an old woman stripping blubber from a piece of seal skin. She smiled and gave a nice little bow and just started talking at them in this language t they had no way of comprehending. They took to calling her better than nothing, which sounds mean until you remember they were basically naming her after that schooner. The crew thought she was so cool. So when they headed back to santa barbara, she hopped on with them,. And captain nidiver pretty much won or over. He wrote about this a lot, by the way, in his memoirs.