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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... Four men were secured to the wheel the sailors were obliged to cling to prevent being washed away the ropes were thrown in confusion . to leeward the shot rolled out of the lockers , and every eye was fixed aloft , watching the masts ...
... four inches square ; and I now , for the first time , perceived that a strong glare of light was cast into the lobby , where I stood , by a large argand with a brilliant reflector , that , like a magazine lantern , had been mortised ...
... Four gentlemanly - looking men were sitting at table , lashed to their chairs , pale and trembling , while six of the most ruffian - looking scoundrels I ever beheld stood on the opposite side of the table in a row fronting us , with ...
... four negroes on board , who requested us to hoist in their boat , and take them all on board , as the pilot schooner to which they belonged had that morning bore up for Kingston , and left instructions to them to fol- low her in the ...
... four miles to the southward , on the western side of Port Royal harbour , is called , we arrived within a hundred yards of the Palisadoes . The surf , at the particular spot we steered for , did not break on the shore in a rolling ...