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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... coming upon them right down the wind under a press of sail , took in his light canvas . " He don't know what to make of our waiting for him . so bold , " said the helmsman . " He does though , and means to fight us , " cried an- other ...
... coming shock . The galley's helm went up to port , and her beak slid all but harmless along Amyas's bow ; a long dull grind , and then loud crack on crack , as the Rose sawed slowly through the bank of oars from stem to stern , hurling ...
... coming swell , hurling her crew into the eddies . Nothing but the point of her poop remained , and there stood the stern and steadfast Don , cap - à - pié in his glis- tening black armor , immovable as a man of iron , while over him the ...
... coming to the charge , but without the hourah , with orders to meet before Pat Doolan's door , as speedily as our legs could carry us . We had landed about a cable's length to the right of the high precipitous bank - up which we stole ...
... coming tea chests . Yesterday he had stowed his dun- nage , many hundred bundles of light flexible canes from Sumatra and Malacca ; on these he had laid tons of rough saltpetre , in 200 lb. gunny - bags : and was now mashing it to music ...