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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... man , and bade him go below and fill himself . Will Cary went down , and returned in five minutes with a plate of bread and beef , and a great jack of ale , coaxed them down Amyas's throat , as a nurse does with a child 2 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... to strike him full , one on each bow . They were within forty yards — another minute , and the shock would come . The Englishman's helm went up , his yards creaked round , and gathering way , he BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 7.
... minutes again upon the galley's poop , accompanied , to their intense disgust , by Amyas Leigh and twenty English swords . Five minutes ' hard cutting , hand to hand , and the poop was clear . The soldiers in the forecastle had been ...
... minutes more there was not a Span- iard on board who was not 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 ...
... minutes they have caught her up , and careless of the Spaniard's fire , boarded her en masse , with yells as of a thousand wolves . There will be fearful vengeance taken on those tyrants , unless they play the man this day . And in the ...