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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... mile to a point where she could not be seen from the seaward ; and there moored her to the mangrove - stems . Amyas ordered a boat out , and went up the river himself to reconnoiter . He rowed some three miles , till the river narrowed ...
... mile of the point , and fully expected to weather it , when again the wet and heavy sails flapped in the wind , and the ship broke off two points as before . The officers and seamen were aghast , for the ship's head was right on to the ...
... miles . " Only thirteen miles ; and if we do weather , we shall do very well , for the bay is deep beyond . It's a rocky point , you see , just by way of variety . Well , my lads , I've piece of comfort for you , anyhow . It's not long ...
... mile down the Quay . Presently we arrived before a kind of low grog - shop- a bright lamp was flaring in the breeze at the door , one of the panes of the glass of it being broken . Before I entered , Mr. Treenail took me to one side ...
... miles of Barba- does ) the sun had set bright and clear , after a most beau- tiful day , and we were bowling along right before it , roll- ing like the very devil ; but there was no moon , and al- though the stars sparkled brilliantly ...