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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... moment , long enough to let her crew come pouring wildly up on deck , with cries and prayers , and rush aft to the poop , where , under the flag of Spain , stood the tall captain , his left hand on the standard - staff , his sword ...
... moment and shouted , " God save Queen Bess ! " and the English an- swered with a " Hurrah ! " which rent the welkin . Another moment and the gulf had swallowed his vic- tim , and the poop , and him ; and nothing remained of the Madre ...
... moment . " Pish ! I can't stand here chattering . Carpenter ! an ax ! and help me to cast these spars loose . Get out of my way , there ! lumbering the scuppers up like so many moult- ing fowls ! Here , all old friends , lend a hand ...
... moment that I give the order . Silence there , fore and aft . Quar- termaster , keep her full again for stays . Mind you ease the helm down when I tell you . " About a minute passed before the captain gave any further orders . The ship ...
... moment the wind had caught the sails ; and the ship , which for a moment or two had been on an even keel , careened over to her gunwale with its force . The captain , who stood upon the weather hammock - rails , holding by the main ...