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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... watch- ing the compass ; and when the sails were again full , she had broken off two points , and the point of land was only a little on the lee - bow . " We must wear her round , Mr. Falcon . Hands , wear ship —ready , oh , ready ...
... watch my eye , and execute my orders with precision . Away to your stations for tacking ship . Hands by the best bower anchor . Mr. Wilson , attend below with the carpenter and his mates , ready to cut away the cable at the moment that ...
... have to weather a point of the bay on this tack . Mr. Falcon , splice the main - brace , and call the watch . How's her head , quartermaster ? " " S.W. by S. Southerly , sir . " " " Very well ; let her go through the 30 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... sitting smoking and enjoy- ing themselves over a glass of cold grog - the gunner tak- ing the watch on deck - the doctor was piping anything but mellifluously on the double flagolet , while the Spanish 42 GREAT SEA STORIES.
... watch on deck . A gun from the commodore , who showed a num- ber of lights . " What is that , Mr. Kennedy ? " said the captain to the old gunner . " The commodore has made the night - signal for the sternmost ships to make more sail and ...