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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... , " said the captain . " Falcon , " continued he , " if she breaks off again we may have no room to wear ; indeed , there is so little room now , that I must run the risk . - Which cable was ranged last night - 28 GREAT SEA STORIES.
Joseph Lewis French. risk . - Which cable was ranged last night - the best bower ? " " Yes , sir . " " Jump down , then , and see it double - bitted and stop- pered at thirty fathoms . See it well done — our lives may depend upon it ...
... night . We were now comparatively safe- in a few hours completely so ; for , strange to say , imme- diately after we had weathered the rocks , the gale abated , and before morning we had a reef out of the topsails . THE CRUISE OF THE ...
... . " I am going there on duty to - night ; I daresay , if you asked the captain to let you accompany me , he would do pass- so . " This was too good an offer 36 The Cruise of the Torch From "Tom Cringle's Log " By MICHAEL SCOTT.
... night here . " I made no scruples , but forthwith arrayed myself in the slops contained in the bundle ; in a pair of shag trousers , red flannel shirt , coarse blue cloth jacket , and no waist- coat . " Now , " said Mr. Treenail ...