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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... leaving us to reflect on our unhappy situation . The poor man killed by the natives was John Norton : this was his second voyage with me as a quarter - master , and his worthy character made me lament his loss very much . He has left an ...
... leaving the ship was principally owing to our loss in the bustle and confusion of the attack . A few cocoanuts were in the boat , and some bread - fruit , but the latter was trampled to pieces . tity we had on Sunday , 3d . At daybreak ...
... Leaving this island , which I named Sunday Island , we continued our course towards Endeavor Straits . During our voyage Nelson became very ill , but gradually recovered . Next day we landed at another island , to see what we could get ...
... leaving Tofoa , having in that time run , by our log , a distance of 3,618 miles and that , notwithstanding our ex- treme distress , no one should have perished in the voyage . I have already mentioned that I knew not where the Dutch ...
... leaving her precisely in a situation to receive the first shock on her broadside . Happy it was , for all who had life at risk in that defenceless vessel , that she was not fated to receive the whole weight of the tempest at a blow ...