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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... carronades on the quarterdeck and forecastle grinning through the ports in the black bul- warks , while the white hammocks , carefully covered by the hammock - cloths , crowned the defences of the gallant frigate fore and aft , as she ...
... the passengers . While they were coming , Dodd sent and ordered the gunner to load the carronades with shot , and secure and apron them .... The Agra had already shown great sailing qualities : the MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE 79.
... carronades , Grey of the cutlasses , and direct- ed Mr. Tickell to break the bad news gently to Mrs. Beresford , and to take her below to the orlop deck ; order- ed the purser to serve out beef , biscuit , and grog to all hands , saying ...
... carronades , and firing those two heavy guns alternately into the devoted ship . He hulled the Agra now nearly every shot . The two available carronades replied noisily , and jumped as usual ; they sent one thirty - two pound shot clean ...
... carronades to bear , heavily laden with grape . Several pirates fell , dead or wounded , on the crowded deck , and ... carronade to bear , while he raked her fore and aft with grape and ball . In this alarming situation , Dodd kept as ...