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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... Fire , and with a will ! Have at her , archers : have at her , muskets all ! " and in an instant a storm of bar and chain - shot , round and canister , swept the proud Don from stem to stern , while through the white cloud of smoke the ...
... fire on a ship right ahead . The long low waist was packed full of the slaves , some five or six to each oar , and down the center , between the two banks , the English could see the slave - drivers walk- ing up and down a long gangway ...
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... Fire at the soldiers ! " cried Amyas ; but the work was too hot for much discrimina- tion ; for the larboard galley , crippled but not undaunted , swung round across his stern , and hooked herself venom- ously on to him . It was a move ...