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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... steered for , did not break on the shore in a rolling curling wave , as it usually does , but smoothed away under the lee of a small sandy promontory that ran out into the sea , about half a cable's length to windward , and then slid up ...
... steered so adroitly , now right astern , now on the quarter , that the ship could seldom bring more than one carronade to bear , while he raked her fore and aft with grape and ball . In this alarming situation , Dodd kept as many of the ...
... steered the great ship down on a hundred matchlocks , and a grinning broadside , just as they would have conned and steered her into a British harbor . " Starboard ! " said Dodd , in a deep calm voice , with a motion of his hand ...
... April 1789. - The wind being north- erly in the evening , we steered to the westward , to pass to the south of Tofoa . I gave directions for this course to be continued during the night . The master had 99 UNIV . OF V VI.