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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... sails shivered and flapped like thunder . " Up with the helm ; what are you about , quartermaster ? " " The wind has headed us , sir , " replied the quarter- master , coolly . The captain and master remained at the binnacle watch- ing ...
... 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 breakers . " Luff now , all you can , quartermaster , " cried the captain . " Send ...
... 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 - rigging , ordered the helm a ...
... . " Mr. Falcon , " said he , at last , " we must put the main- sail on her . " " She never can bear it , sir . " " She must bear it , " was the reply . Send the men aft to the mainsheet . See that careful men attend the 32 GREAT SEA ...
... sails up and bend them , and then went below to his cabin . I am sure it was to thank God for our deliverance : I did most fervently , not only then , but when I went to my hammock at night . We were now comparatively safe- in a few ...