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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... fell up into the wind . " Well done , men of Devon ! " shouted Amyas , as cheers rent the welkin . " She has struck , " cried some , as the deafening hur- rah's died away . " Not a bit , " said Amyras . " Hold on , helmsman , and leave ...
... fell : the Span- iards , according to their fashion , attempted to board : the English , amid fierce shouts of " God and the Queen ! " " God and St. George for England ! " sweeping them back by showers of arrows and musquet balls ...
... fell headlong between the beams to the main - deck below , to be slaughtered helpless in that pit of destruction , by the double fire from the bulkheads fore and aft ; while the few who kept their footing on the gangway , after vain ...
... fell upon all men , and a solemn silence , broken only by the cry " Of some strong swimmer in his agony . " And then , suddenly collecting themselves , as men awakened from a dream , half - a - dozen desperate gal- lants , reckless of ...