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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... four men . She was commanded by a very gallant fellow - there is no disputing that - and he must needs emulate the con- duct of the officer who had made the capture ; for in a fine clear night , when all the officers were below ...
... four hours or so , when I was awakened by a rough thump on the side from the stumbling foot of the captain of the top , the word having been passed to shake a reef out of the top- sails , the wind having rather suddenly gone down . It ...
... four hundred tons burden , fully loaded with cotton . By the time we got the crew on board , and the second- lieutenant , with a prize crew of fifteen men , had taken charge , the weather began to lour again , nevertheless we took the ...
... four , and she appeared to have been fitted with great care . I got a week's leave at this time , and , as I had letters to several families , I con- trived to spend my time pleasantly enough . Bermuda , as all the world knows , is a ...
... four hands in . The moment she touched the water , the tackles were cleverly unhooked , and the rest of us tumbled on board , shin leather grow- ing scarce , when we shoved off . With great difficulty , and not without wet jackets , we ...