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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... masts , which were ex- pected every moment to go over the side . A heavy sea struck us on the broadside , and it was some moments before the ship appeared to recover herself ; she reeled , trembled , and stopped her way , as if it had ...
... masts of the ship are as secure as knowledge and attention can make them . " The first lieutenant thanked the captain for his good opinion , and hoped that it would not be the last compli- ment which he paid him . " I hope not , too ...
... mast - head . " A small schooner lying to right ahead , sir , " sang out the boatswain from the forecastle . Before we could beat to quarters , another sang between our masts . We kept steadily on our course , and as we approached our ...
... mast - head sang out- " Breakers right ahead , sir . " " Breakers ! " said Mr. Splinter , in great astonishment . " Breakers ! -why , the man must be mad ! I say , Jenkins " " " Breakers close under the bows , " sang out the boat- swain ...
... mast , across which there was rigged a solitary lug - sail . It was blowing so hard that we had some difficulty in ... masts short by the board , and the only spar which they had been able to rig , was a spare topmast which they had ...