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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... hour had passed , his voice cried firmly and cheerfully as of old — " Now , my masters , let us serve God , and then to breakfast , and after that clear for action . " Jack Brimblecombe read the daily prayers , and the prayers before a ...
... hour was past . So , kneeling down upon the deck , as many a brave crew in those days did in like case , they " gave God thanks devoutly for the favor they had found , " and then with one accord , at Jack's leading , sang one ...
... hour or more , till all arms were weary , and all tongues clove to the mouth . And sick men , rotting with scurvy , scrambled up on deck , and fought with the strength of madness : and tiny powder- boys , handing up cartridges from the ...
... hour ago ; you are not surely turned sheep already ! Why , but yesterday evening you were grumbling because I would not run in and fight those three ships under the batteries of La Guayra , and now you think it too much to have fought ...
... 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 23.