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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... tell his sad and strange story . How after Captain Hawkins , constrained by fam- ine , had put them ashore , they wandered in misery till the Spaniards took them ; how , instead of hanging them ( as they at first intended ) , the Dons ...
... Tell him if he fires again , I'll put him in irons , if he were my own brother . Cut away the grapples aloft , men . Don't you see how she drags us over ? Cut away , or we shall sink with her . " They cut away , and the Rose , released ...
... telling them that all depended on rigging a jury - mast forward as soon as possible . They answered only by growls ; and at last broke into open reproaches . Even Will Cary's volatile nature , which had kept him up during the fight gave ...
... tell you where we are going , lads , " said Amyas , rising from his work . " Like it or leave it as you will , I have no secrets from my crew . We are going inshore there to find a harbor , and careen the ship . " There was a start and ...
... tell you . " About a minute passed before the captain gave any further orders . The ship had closed - to within a quarter - mile of the beach , and the waves curled and topped around us , bearing us down upon the shore , which presented ...