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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... pulled on shore , where , 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 ...
... pulled off , lay on it , with the very mould of the hands in them . The rudder case was particularly beautiful ; it was a richly carved and gilded palm - tree , the stem painted white and interlaced with golden fretwork , like the ...
... pulled across towards the town , until we landed at the bottom of Hanover Street ; the lights from the cabin windows of the merchantmen glimmering as we passed , and the town only discernible from a solitary sparkle here and there . But ...
... pulled two boats with the passengers . While they were coming , Dodd sent and ordered the gunner to load the carronades with shot , and secure and apron them .... The Agra had already shown great sailing qualities : the MERCHANTMAN AND ...
... pulled out of bed , and forced on deck in my shirt , suffering great pain from the tightness with which they had tied my hands . I demanded the reason of such violence , but re- ceived no other answer than abuse for not holding my ...