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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... Boston had been captured in this very channel by one of our men - of - war schooners , and carried into Nassau ; out of which port , for their own security , the authorities had fitted a small schooner , carrying six guns and twenty ...
... Boston ? " he said to the younger man . " One might think this an old - fash- ioned , piratical cutting out . ' 99 " Oh , I don't know , Doc . It's best to have them . That hulk may be full of Spaniards , and the whole thing no- thing ...
... Boston , after an interval . " Good news , he said , but that's all I learned . Maybe it's from Gomez . If he'll only take hold again we can chase the Spanish off the island now . Then we'll put some of your stuff under Moro and lift it ...
... Boston , scanning the gray fabric fore and aft ; " one of the first iron ships built , I should think . They housed ... Boston . " Boston ran up the shaky poop ladder and opened the companion - way above , which let a stream of the fresh ...
... Boston looked over his shoulder . " That's so ; she signed her crew at Boston , too . Where has she been all this time ? Let's see this one . " The manifest was short , and stated that her cargo was 3000 barrels of lime , 8000 kids of ...