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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... mate on the other side could swing round to strike him in his new position , Amyas's whole broadside , great and small , had been poured into her at pistol - shot , answered by a yell which rent their ears and hearts . " Spare the ...
... mate worked with terrible ef- fect . " We are lacking her through and through every shot , " said he . " Leave the small ordnance alone yet awhile , and we shall sink her without them . " " Whing , whing , " went the Spaniard's shot ...
... mates , ready to cut away the cable at the moment that I give the order . Silence there , fore and aft . Quar- termaster , keep her full again for stays . Mind you ease the helm down when I tell you . " About a minute passed before the ...
... mate , pipe away the crew of the jolly - boat . " We also hove to , and were in the act of lowering down the boat , when the offi- cer rattled out- " Keep all fast with the boat ; I can't comprehend that chap's manoeuvres for the soul ...
... mate , who was lashed down to a ring - bolt close by the bits , with his hands tied at the wrists by sharp cords , so tightly that the blood was spouting from beneath his nails . " We have been surprised by a privateer schooner , sir ...