Nathaniel Pearce, deserting from the HMS Antelope…
July 1805 CE
After he arrived at Massawa on the Red Sea coast, he accompanied, in the summer of next year, Henry Salt as an English servant on his mission to the court of Ras Wolde Selassie of Tigray.
Born in East Acton near London, Pearce had been educated at private schools, but, proving wild and incorrigible, had been apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square.
He had soon run away to sea, and on his return had been apprenticed to a leather-seller, whom he left suddenly to enlist on the man-of-war HMS Alert.
In May 1794 he was taken prisoner by the French; but after many attempts succeeded in escaping, and served again in the navy.
Many adventures had followed.
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