Look at Nelson's letters.
I am inclined to ascribe my own slow promotion to the unnatural accuracy of my spelling, which offended my lords, because it puzzled them." "Then all is straight sailing, as you say, papa.

But I must tell you first how I found it out, or perhaps you won't believe me.

I knew that Captain Honyman wrote this postscript, or whatever it is, with his left hand, so I took a pen in my own left hand, and practised all the letters, and the way they join, which is quite different from the other hand.

And here is the copy of the words, as my left hand taught my right to put them down, after inking ever so many fingers: "'We never could have done it without Scudamore.

He jumped a most wonderful jump from our jib-boom into her mizzen chains, when our grapples had slipped, and we could get no nearer, and there he made fast, though the enemy came at him with cutlasses, pikes, and muskets.
By this means we borded and carried the ship, with a loss as above reported.