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Title: Great Sea Stories

Author: Various

Editor: Joseph Lewis French

Release Date: May 16, 2006 [EBook #18405]

Language: English

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GREAT SEA STORIES

EDITED BY

JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH

Editor "Great Ghost Stories," "Masterpieces of Mystery," "The Best
Psychic Stories," etc.

NEW YORK

BRENTANO'S

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1921, by

BRENTANO'S

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs
From "Westward Ho!" By CHARLES KINGSLEY

The Club-Hauling of the _Diomede_
From "Peter Simple." By CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT

The Cruise of the _Torch_
From "Tom Cringle's Log." By MICHAEL SCOTT

The Merchantman and the Pirate
From "Hard Cash." By CHARLES READE

The Mutiny of the _Bounty_
From "Chamber's Miscellany." ANONYMOUS

The Wreck of the _Royal Caroline_
From "The Red Rover." By JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER

The Capture of the Great White Whale
From "Moby Dick." By HERMAN MELVILLE

The Corvette _Claymore_
From "Ninety-three." By VICTOR HUGO

The Merchants' Cup
From "Broken Stowage." By DAVID W. BONE

A Storm and a Rescue
From "The Wreck of the _Grosvenor_." By W. CLARK RUSSELL

The Sailor's Wife
From "An Iceland Fisherman." By PIERRE LOTI

The Salving of the _Yan-Shan_
From "In Blue Waters." By H. DE VERE STACKPOOLE

The Derelict _Neptune_
From "Spun Gold." By MORGAN ROBERTSON

The Terrible Solomons
From "South Sea Tales." By JACK LONDON

El Dorado
From "A Tarpaulin Muster." By JOHN MASEFIELD

ILLUSTRATION

Song sung by labor gang.

FOREWORD

The theme of the sea is heroic--epic. Since the first stirrings of the
imagination of man the sea has enthralled him; and since the dawn of
literature he has chronicled his wanderings upon its vast bosom.

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