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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... shore , where between them and the now distant peaks of the Silla , three sails appeared , not five miles to windward . " There are the Spanish bloodhounds on our heels , the 30 VINU same ships which we saw yesterday off Guayra 1 I.
... miles of them . She is now within two musket - shots of the Rose , with the golden flag of Spain floating at her poop ; and her trumpets are shouting defiance up the breeze , from a dozen brazen throats , which two or three answer ...
... miles to wind- ward , with the galleys sweeping down fast upon them . And two venomous - looking craft they were , as they shot through the short chopping sea upon some forty oars apiece , stretching their long sword - fish snouts over ...
... miles to leeward of them , and which must be fought with , or fled from , before a quarter of an hour was past . So , kneeling down upon the deck , as many a brave crew in those days did in like case , they " gave God thanks devoutly ...
... anxiously for an hour . The boat returned with a good report of two fathoms of water over the bar , impenetrable forests for two miles up , the river sixty yards broad , and no sign of man . The BLOODHOUNDS AND MASTIFFS 23.