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Various. Great Sea Stories
Great Sea Stories
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATION
FOREWORD
GREAT SEA STORIES
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
[Illustration: Song sung by labor gang.]
NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY OF THE _BOUNTY_
From "Chamber's Miscellany," ANONYMOUS
FATE OF THE CASTAWAYS
FATE OF THE MUTINEERS—COLONY OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND
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
SECOND DAY
THIRD DAY
THE CORVETTE _CLAYMORE_
From "Ninety-three," BY VICTOR HUGO
THE MERCHANTS' CUP
From "Broken Stowage," BY DAVID W. BONE
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II
III
IV
V
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
IN MEMORY OF. GAOS YVON. Lost at Sea. NEAR THE NORDEN-FJORD
Lost at Sea. NEAR THE NORDEN-FJORD. In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, 1880
NEAR THE NORDEN-FJORD. In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, 1880. at the age of 23 years. _Requiescat in pace_!
THE SALVING OF THE YAN-SHAN
From "In Blue Waters," BY H. DE VERE STACKPOOLE
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II
III
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
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging and looked through the smoke. Dead men he could descry through the blinding veil, rolled in heaps, laid flat; dead men and dying; but no man upon his feet. The last volley had swept the deck clear; one by one had dropped below to escape that fiery shower: and alone at the helm, grinding his teeth with rage, his mustachios curling up to his very eyes, stood the Spanish captain.
Now was the moment for a counter stroke. Amyas shouted for the boarders, and in two minutes more he was over the side, and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging.
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