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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... leaving two strong fellows in charge of the 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 ...
... leaving a space of smooth water under the lee of the island , shaped like the tail of a comet , tapering away , and gradually roughening and becoming more stormy , until the roaring billows once more owned allegiance to the genius of ...
... leaving in the middle a lane somewhat narrower than a tea chest . Then he applied a screw jack to the chests on both sides , and so enlarged his central aperture , and forced the re- maining tea chests in ; and behold the enormous cargo ...
... leaving the schooner about two miles and a half distant to the N.W. Ah ! The stranger's deck swarms black with men . His sham ports fell as if by magic , his guns grinned through the gaps like black teeth ; his huge foresail rose and ...
... leaving the schooner staggered and all abroad . But not for long ; the pirate wore and fired his bow chasers at the now flying Agra , split one of the carronades in two , and killed a Lascar , and made a hole in the foresail ; this done ...