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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... arm would have touched the rock ; and at this moment a gust of wind came on , which laid the ship on her beam - ends , and checked her progress through the water , while the accumulating noise was deafening . A few moments more the ship ...
... arm . " Mr. Cringle , come here into my room . " From the way in which he spoke , I imagined , in my innocence , that his room was at my elbow ; but no such thing - we had to ascend a long , and not over - clean stair- case , to the ...
... arms called down to me , — " Mr. Cringle , you are wanted in the gunroom . " I put on my jacket again , and immediately proceeded thither , and on my way I noticed a group of seamen , stand- ing on the starboard gangway , dressed in pea ...
... arms with you . " I now knew whereabouts I was , and that my Cork friends were the quarry at which we aimed . I did as I was ordered , and we immediately pulled on shore , where , leaving two strong fellows in charge of the boat , with ...
... arms , and lashing the fins to the same by good stout lanyards , we were proceeding to stump our prisoners off to the boat , when , with the innate deviltry that I have inherited , I know not how , but the original sin of which has more ...