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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... dark , the captain came up to Mr. Treenail . " Why , Mr. Treenail , I think we had better heave to for the night , and in this case I shall want you to go in the cutter to Port Royal to deliver the despatches on board the flag - ship ...
... darkness of the night in comparative quietness ; and in two hours from the time we had left the old Torch , we were transferred from her orderly deck to the bustle of a crowded town . One of our crew undertook to be the guide to the ...
... dark lady continued ; " Follow me , sir ; and dat small gentleman [ Thomas Cringle , Es- quire , no less ! ] - him will better follow me too . " We left the room , and turning to the right , landed in the lower piazza of the house ...
... dark landing - place , halfway up the stair ; and down the other flight tumbled our guide , with Mr. Treenail and myself , and the two blackies on the top of her , rolling in our descent over , or rather into , another large mahogany ...
... I was much entertained with the mess he made when any of the foreigners at table addressed him in French or Spanish . I was particularly struck with a small , 9 thin , dark Spaniard , who told very feelingly 58 GREAT SEA STORIES.