Great Sea StoriesJoseph Lewis French Brentano's, 1921 - 332 sider ...It is one of the curiosities of literature, a fact that old Isaac Disraeli might have delighted to linger over, that there have been no collectors of sea-tales; that no man has ever, as in the present instance, dwelt upon the topic with the purpose of gathering some of the best work into a single volume. And yet men have written of the sea since 2500 B.C. when an unknown author set down on papyrus his account of a struggle with a sea-serpent. This account, now in the British Museum, is the first sea-story on record. Our modern sea-stories begin properly with the chronicles of the early navigators-in many of which there is an unconscious art that none of our modern masters of fiction has greatly surpassed. For delightful reading the lover of sea stories is referred to Best's account of Frobisher's second voyage-to Richard Chancellor's chronicle of the same period-to Hakluyt, an immortal classic-and to Purchas' "Pilgrimage."... |
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... boats with the passengers . While they were coming , Dodd sent and ordered the gunner to load the carronades with shot , and secure and apron them .... The Agra had already shown great sailing qualities : the MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE 79.
... Dodd's chest expand- ed : his main anxiety at this part of the voyage lay in the state cabin ; of all the perils of the sea none shakes a sailor like fire . He set a watch day and night on that spoiled child . On the 1st of May they ...
... Dodd was not yet thoroughly acquainted with his ship's qualities : and the hard cash round his neck made him cautious . The lee ports were closed , all but one , and that was lowered . Mr. Grey was working a problem in his cabin , and ...
... Dodd's clemency , and brimful of zeal , reported a light in Mrs. Beresford's cabin . It had been put out as usual by the master - at - arms ; but the refractory one had relighted it . " Go and take it away , " said Dodd . Soon screams ...
... Dodd , then dressing in his cabin . He came soon after on deck and hailed the lookout : " Which way is she standing ? ' " Can't say , sir . Can't see her move any . " Dodd ordered the boatswain to pipe to breakfast ; and taking his deck ...