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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... heads ; for the ill - constructed ports of those days pre- vented the guns from hulling an enemy who was to wind- ward ... head - sail , lay at the mercy of the Spaniard ; and the archers and musqueteers had hardly time to range them ...
... head ! " And with much ado some were dragged back , some leaped back - all but old Michael Heard . With hair and beard floating in the wind , the bronzed naked figure , like some weird old Indian fakir , still climbed on steadfastly up ...
... head ; and as Heard sprang onward , bleeding , but alive , the steel - clad corpse rattled down the deck into the surge . Two more strokes , struck with the fury of a dying man , and the standard - staff was hewn through . Old Michael ...
... head was put toward the land ; but when she began to slip through the water , the leak increased so fast that they were kept hard at work at the pumps for the rest of the afternoon . The current had by this time brought them abreast of ...
... head , the endless labyrinth of stems and withes ( for every bough had lowered its own living cord , to take fresh hold of the foul soil below ) ; the web of roots , which stretched away inland till it was lost in the shades of evening ...