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(he writes) I was obliged to officiate for mj^self, and 

 set it ill a truly sailor like, fashion, so that in a Aveek 

 after it was again obliged to be broken, by the advice of 

 the surgeon/* Mr. Tuckey never completely recovered 

 the use of this arm. 



From the intense heat and the sufFocatino- smell of an 

 active volcano, to which they were exposed in Amboyna 

 Roads for ten months, where they experienced the evils of 

 famine and sickness in addition to that of rebelhon, they 

 were glad to escape to Macao, where, in the month of 

 January, they found the weather so intolerably cold as 

 several times to have snow. From hence they proceeded 

 to Ceylon ; and when at Colombo, on the 15th January, 

 1798, a serious mutiny broke out on board the Suffolk, 

 then bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Rainier, in the 

 c|uelling of which Mr. Tuckey exerted himself with so 

 much success, that though wanting eighteen months for 

 the completion of his servitude to qualify him for a lieute- 

 nant's commission, the Rear Admiral appointed him, the 

 following day, acting lieutenant of that ship : from her he 

 was removed to the Fox frigate ; and when belonging to 

 that frigate, but being at Madras in a prize, intelligence 

 was there received that La Forte, a French frigate, was 

 cruising in the bay of Bengal. His Majesty's ship La Sy- 

 bille immediately prepared for sea, and Mr. Tuckey, with 

 a small party of seamen belonging to the Fox, volunteered 

 their services in her. In the night of the 28th February 

 they fell in with their opponent, and after a most brilliant 

 action of two hours, frequently within pistol shot of each 

 other, La Forte iiaving lost all her masts and bowsprit, 

 struck to the Sybille. In this action Lieutenant Tuckey 



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