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Raisonnable Deck — First Days Unnoticed

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Raisonnable Deck — First Days Unnoticed

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Overview

North Walsham — Chatham Stage already records the Chatham-stage landing. This note covers the first days on board only: Suckling was not in the ship, and Nelson paced the deck unnoticed.1

The First Days

Southey says that when he got on board, Capt. Suckling was not in the ship, nor had any person been apprised of the boy’s coming. He paced the deck the whole remainder of the day, without being noticed by any one, and it was not till the second day that somebody took notice of him. Nelson had a feeble body and an affectionate heart, and he remembered through life his first days of wretchedness in the service.2

The stage and the wandering in the cold stay on North Walsham — Chatham Stage. This page does not invent a day-date or quote a spoken line.

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  1. Stage and wandering only: North Walsham — Chatham Stage. ↩

  2. “When he got on board, Capt. Suckling was not in the ship, nor had any person been apprized of the boy’s coming. He paced the deck the whole remainder of the day, without being noticed by any one.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 8–9 (1813). Do not add a spoken line or a day-date. ↩

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