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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... dead or dying . 66 " Let the slaves free ! " shouted he . Throw us a hammer down , men . Hark ! there's an English voice ! " There is indeed . From amid the wreck of broken oars and writhing limbs , a voice is shrieking in broadest ...
... Dead men he could descry through the blinding veil , rolled in heaps , laid flat ; dead men and dying ; but no man upon his feet . The last volley had swept the deck clear ; one by one had dropped below to escape that fiery shower : and ...
... dead lee shore . As the night closed in , it blew a dreadful gale , and the ship was nearly buried with the press of canvas which she was obliged to carry : for had we sea - room , we should have been lying - to under storm staysails ...
... dead body of an old emaciated woman in her graveclothes , the quality of which was much finer than one could have expected to have seen in the midst of the surrounding squalidness . The face of the corpse was uncovered , the hands were ...
... lee - and an armed boat , with Mr. Treenail , and myself , and sixteen men , with cutlasses , were sent on board . We jumped on deck , and at the gangway Mr. Treenail stumbled and fell over the dead body of a man 48 GREAT SEA STORIES.