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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... showed the Spanish cap- tain , in his suit of black steel armor , standing cool and proud , guiding and pointing , careless of the iron hail , but too lofty a gentleman to soil his glove with aught but a knightly sword - hilt : while ...
... showed a num- ber of lights . " What is that , Mr. Kennedy ? " said the captain to the old gunner . " The commodore has made the night - signal for the sternmost ships to make more sail and close , sir . " We repeated the signal and ...
... showed she was broad awake . Next moment Captain Deadeye hailed . " Have you mastered the prize crew , Mr. Treenail ? " " Ay , ay , sir . " " Then bear up on your course , and keep two lights hoisted at your mizzen - peak during the ...
... river , to Lin Tin , to board the Chinese admiral for his chop , or permission to leave China . All night the Agra showed three lights at her mizzen peak for him , and kept a sharp lookout . But he MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE 77.
... showed her weak point : she rolled abominably . A dirty night came on . At eight bells Mr. Grey touched by Dodd's clemency , and brimful of zeal , reported a light in Mrs. Beresford's cabin . It had been put out as usual by the master ...