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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... boat , and watched anxiously for an hour . The boat returned with a good report of two fathoms of water over the bar , impenetrable forests for two miles up , the river sixty yards broad , and no sign of man . The BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS ...
... boat . All was foul , sullen , weird as witches ' dream . If Amyas had seen a crew of skeletons glide down the stream behind him , with Satan standing at the helm , he would scarcely have been surprised . What fitter craft could haunt ...
... boat breasting the foaming surge like a sea gull - Carrol Cove in her tiny mainsail - pilot jumped into the main channel - bottle of rum swung by the lead line into the boat - all very clever . Ran in , and anchored under Spike Island ...
... boat , with in- structions to fire their pistols and shove off a couple of boat - lengths should any suspicious circumstances indicat- ing an attack take place , we separated , like a pulk of Cos- sacks coming to the charge , but ...
... boat , when , with the innate deviltry that I have inherited , I know not how , but the original sin of which has more than once nearly cost me my life , I said , without addressing my superior officer , or any one else directly , " THE ...