p.
172.
[10] Nelson's letters are contradictory on this point.

In a letter to Locker of March 3, 1786, he says, "Before the first vessel was tried I had seized four others;" whereas in the formal and detailed narrative drawn up--without date, but later than the letter to Locker--he says the first vessel was tried and condemned May 17, the other four seized May 23.
(Nicolas, vol.i.pp.

177, 178.) The author has followed the latter, because from the particularity of dates it seems to have been compiled from memoranda, that of Locker written from memory,--both nearly a year after the events.
[11] This word is used by Nelson, apparently, as equivalent to "season,"-- the cruising period in the West Indies.

"The admiral wishes to remain another station," he writes elsewhere.
[12] Lady Nelson's tombstone in Littleham Churchyard, Exmouth, reads that she died May 6, 1831, "aged 73." She would then have been born before May 6, 1758.

Nicolas (vol.i.p.