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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... took Nombre de Dios , we can take La Guayra . " And every voice shouted , " Yes . " " We will have it , Amyas , and have Frank too , yet , " cried Cary ; but Amyas shook his head . He knew , and knew not why he knew , that all the ports ...
... took the tiller from the steers- 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 ...
... took charge of the poop , Cary of the forecastle , and Yeo , as gunner , of the main - deck , while Drew , as master , settled himself in the waist ; and all was ready , and more than ready , before the great ship was within two miles ...
... took in his light canvas . " He don't know what to make of our waiting for him . so bold , " said the helmsman . " He does though , and means to fight us , " cried an- other . " See , he is hauling up the foot of his mainsail : but he ...
... took but five min- utes to do ? The nine men ( luckily none of them wound- ed ) are freed , and helped on board , to be hugged and kissed by old comrades and young kinsmen ; while the remaining slaves , furnished with a couple of ...