To Admiral’s Pen in 1780 Nelson was brought, after a short sojourn at Port Royal, on his return from the San Juan expedition, and, weak from fever and dysentery, was tenderly nursed by Lady Parker and her housekeeper, Mrs. Yates, while even the admiral himself took his turn in sitting up with the patient. We are told that Nelson’s aversion from taking medicine was so great that they had to send it to him by the hand of the admiral’s youngest daughter. On June 11 Nelson went up to the admiral’s hill residence, or “Admiral’s Mountain,” as he calls it in a letter to his friend Hercules Ross. Lady Nugent, in her “Journal of a Voyage to and Residence in the Island of Jamaica,” refers to the Admiral’s Pen more than once. On September 13, 1804, when Sir John Thomas Duckworth was admiral, she writes: Breakfast at 8, as usual. Have at 11 a second breakfast of fruit, wine, cake, etc., and at 12 all set off for the Admiral’s Penn; Lady M[argaret Cameron, wife of the Governor of the Bahamas], her young people, and myself, in the sociable, with our two black postillions in scarlet liveries, but with black ancles peeping out of their particulars, and altogether rather a novel sort of appearance, to Europeans just arrived. General N. and Mr. Cameron in the curricle. Aides-de-camp, servants, etc., in kittareens, and on horseback; and all arrived in grand procession at the Admiral’s at about 3. Refreshments were ready, and then we all creolized till 5 o’clock. A large party, of the Navy chiefly, at dinner. Cards; and to bed soon after ten. The banquets and other ceremonies that have taken place within the walls of Admiral’s Pen must have been excelled in splendour only by those of King’s House, Spanish Town, in its palmiest days. [Illustration: ROCK FORT ] “Long before Kingston had been settled as a town,” says the late Mr. G. F. Judah in his “Rock Fort, Fort Castile, Fort Nugent” (Kingston, 1906), “Rock Fort, with its surroundings then lying in both the old parishes of Port Royal and St. Andrew, had acquired a name and reputation of its own.”