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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... called , we arrived within a hundred yards of the Palisadoes . The surf , at the particular spot we steered for , did not break on the shore in a rolling curling wave , as it usually does , but smoothed away under the lee of a small ...
... called for a light , when , to his horror , he found the body of his old and faith- ful valet lying in it , dead and cold , with a knife sticking under his fifth rib - no doubt intended for his master . The speaker was Bolivar . About ...
... called , by holding a lighted candle between the fingers , and putting some loose powder into the palm of the hand , then chucking it up into the flame . They got a sound flogging , on a very unpoetical part of their cor- puses , and ...
... called on deck , - " Starboard watch , ahoy ! " — which was a cheery sound to us of the larboard , who were thus released from duty on deck , and allowed to go below . The men were scrambling down the weather shrouds , and I was ...