IN THE EAST INDIES
In August, 1773, the expedition returned, and Nelson, through his uncle's influence, though only 15 years old, was taken on board the Seahorse, of 20 guns, one of the ships •composing a squadron fitting out for the East Indies. " During an absence of three years he, for much of the time, as formerly in his West India cruise, did the duty of a seaman aloft, from which he was afterwards rated midshipman, and placed, this time finally, upon the quarter deck as an officer. . . . He visited every station from Bengal to Bussorah ; but the climate, trying even to vigorous Europeans, proved too much for his frail health. After a couple of years he was invalided home, reaching England in September, 1776. He had been reduced to a skeleton, and for some time entirely lost the use of his limbs — a distiessing symptom, that returned upon him a few years later after his Central American expedition in 1780."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2692, 18 October 1905, Page 17 (Supplement)
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161IN THE EAST INDIES Otago Witness, Issue 2692, 18 October 1905, Page 17 (Supplement)
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