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“Permit our ships a shelter on your shores, Refitted from your woods with planks and oars, That, if our prince be safe, we may renew Our destin’d course, and Italy pursue.” Virgil, The Aeneid · precept
“There is something very solemn in these scenes. At no time does the consciousness in what a remote corner of the world you are then standing, come so strongly before the mind.” Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle · observation
“For strength and health are not the only qualities to be desired; there are the more important considerations of mind and character and soul.” Plato, The Republic · insight
“Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up, so that Ulysses’ heart began to fail him.” Homer, The Odyssey · observation
“But why rehearse all this tale? For even yesterday I told it to thee and to thy noble wife in thy house; and it liketh me not twice to tell a plain-told tale.” Homer, The Odyssey of Homer · wit
“And such was the fury of the gale that the ship, aboard which was poor, hapless Landolfo, was driven with prodigious force upon a shoal off the island of Cephalonia, and broke up and went to pieces like so much glass dashed against a wall.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume I · vivid
“This deliverance impressed me strongly with the utility of lighthouses, and made me resolve to encourage the building more of them in America if I should live to return there.” Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · insight
“That's your own look out,” said they; “we get no pay, suffer both from hunger and thirst, and have, in the bargain, to share your fatigues and wounds.” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · observation
“Thus ends this year of publick wonder and mischief to this nation.” Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys · insight
“And here we had rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were, that he had a, very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do them and his country:” Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys · observation
“When I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace or copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate; and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.” Olaudah Equiano (also known as Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equ · vivid
“This gladdening sound was like a reprieve to a convict, and we all instantly turned to look at it; but in a little time some of us began to be afraid it was not a sail.” Olaudah Equiano (also known as Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equ · vivid
On the 24th Pepys hosts physicians and chaplains aboard, hears witty conversation, writes a ship-related pass, and notes they come within sight of land late at night.
house for his privacy. After that our company broke up. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board us, and many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. 24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the linning stockings on and wide canons that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my cabbin (that is, the c…
During frost Pepys walks through the City’s ruins, worries about Gottenburgh’s mast supply, then attends plays at the Duke’s house and later reports an estate of hundreds per year passed by friendship and deeds handled for years.
for the sexton, But it come into my head why we should be more bold in making the collection while the psalm is singing, than in the sermon or prayer. 31st. To my accounts, wherein at last I find them clear and right; but to my great discontent do find that my gettings this year have been 573l. less than my last: it being this year in all but 2986l.; whereas, the last, I got 3560l. And then again my spendings thi…
Pepys attends council about Hemskirke’s shipbuilding scheme, then describes Sir Thomas Teddiman’s illness and death, including his funeral procession, last words, and ballads in the sea-related burial crowd.
believe it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament did break his heart, or at least put him into this fever and disorder that; caused his death. 15th. To a Committee for Tangier; where God knows how my Lord Bellasses' accounts passed: understood by nobody but my Lord Ashly, who, I believe, was allowed to let them go as he pleased. But here Sir H. Cholmly had his propositions read about a greater pric…
Ulysses is battered by a storm at sea sent by Neptune, losing raft and mast, nearly drowning, then is rescued when Ino/Leucothea gives him an enchanted veil to reach the Phaeacian coast safely.
Phaeacians, where it is decreed that he shall escape from the calamities that have befallen him. Still, he shall have plenty of hardship yet before he has done with it.” Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident, stirred it round in the sea, and roused the rage of every wind that blows till earth, sea, and sky were hidden in cloud, and night sprang forth out of the heavens. Winds from East, South,…
Ulysses continues his account: he survives storms and shipwreck, sleeps in leaves, meets Nausicaa’s maid servants, receives clothing and food, and Alcinous offers marriage and travel home by ship.
keep to my raft, which went to pieces under the fury of the gale, and I had to swim for it, till wind and current brought me to your shores. “There I tried to land, but could not, for it was a bad place and the waves dashed me against the rocks, so I again took to the sea and swam on till I came to a river that seemed the most likely landing place, for there were no rocks and it was sheltered from the wind. Here, th…
After a Phoenician betrays him into slavery in a voyage, Zeus destroys his ship, and the survivor clings to the mast, drifts for days, washes ashore in Thesprotia, and hears about Ulysses at Dodona.
that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched. I suspected his intention, but went on board with him, for I could not help it. “The ship ran before a fresh North wind till we had reached the sea that lies between Crete and Libya; there, however, Jove counselled their destruction, for as soon as we were well out from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky, he raised a black cloud over our ship an…
Ino (Leucothea) appears and instructs Odysseus to discard Calypso’s garments, trust a protective veil, and swim to shore, but Poseidon then shatters the raft and Odysseus undertakes the sea swim.
hither and thither along the main. Now the South would toss it to the North to carry, and now again the East would yield it to the West to chase. But the daughter of Cadmus marked him, Ino of the fair ankles, Leucothea, who in time past was a maiden of mortal speech, but now in the depths of the salt sea she had gotten her share of worship from the gods. She took pity on Odysseus in his wandering and travail, and sh…
Odysseus clings to rocks as waves crash, is briefly swept back into the sea, then swims along the shore to a river mouth, prays to its god for shelter, sheds the veil, and collapses in exhaustion.
a monster from out of the shore water; and many such pastureth the renowned Amphitrite. For I know how wroth against me hath been the great Shaker of the Earth.” Whilst yet he pondered these things in his heart and mind, a great wave bore him to the rugged shore. There would he have been stript of his skin and all his bones been broken, but that the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, put a thought into his heart. He rushed …
Odysseus recounts his ordeal: shipwreck by Zeus, nine days holding the keel, seven years with Calypso on Ogygia, release by Zeus’s message, raft sailing, Poseidon’s storm, and arrival at Nausicaa’s shore with her assistance.
he had poured for libation into each cup in turn. But when they had poured forth and had drunken to their heart’s content, Alcinous made harangue and spake among them: “Hear me, ye captains and counsellors of the Phaeacians, that I may speak as my spirit bids me. Now that the feast is over, go ye home and lie down to rest; and in the morning we will call yet more elders together, and entertain the stranger in the ha…
Odysseus continues by describing the aftermath of Ismarus and his storm-battered drift past Cythera, then his arrival at the lotus-eaters and the forcing of his men back to the ships.
at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny. “Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad as men saved from death, albeit we had lost our dear companions. Nor did my curved ships move onward ere we had called thrice on each of those our hapless fellows, who died at the hands of the C…
On Aeolia, Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds; after nine days near Ithaca, Odysseus’s crew opens it, releasing storms that drive them back and lead Aeolus to expel Odysseus as hated by the gods.
hath given unto him these things freely in his love. Nay come, let us quickly see what they are, even what wealth of gold and silver is in the wallet.’ “So they spake, and the evil counsel of my company prevailed. They loosed the wallet, and all the winds brake forth. And the violent blast seized my men, and bare them towards the high seas weeping, away from their own country; but as for me, I awoke and communed wit…
Odysseus spends nine days borne by winds, survives the Scylla-Charybdis area again by dropping into the sea on the escaping timbers, reaches Ogygia near Calypso, and ends by refusing to retell the full story.
keel. Now the backstay fashioned of an oxhide had been flung thereon; therewith I lashed together both keel and mast, and sitting thereon I was borne by the ruinous winds. “Then verily the West Wind ceased to blow with a rushing storm, and swiftly withal the South Wind came, bringing sorrow to my soul, that so I might again measure back that space of sea, the way to deadly Charybdis. All the night was I borne, but w…
Shipwrecked on the island of Malta, Paul is bitten by a viper without harm, heals Publius’s father, and then travels onward to Rome with prisoners.
the sea on both the sides, and thrust in the ship. And the fore part stuck fast, and moved not, but the hinderpart brake with the violence of the waves. The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners lest any of them, when he had swum out should flee away: but the undercaptain willing to save Paul kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they that could swim should cast themselves first in to the sea, and s…
A massive storm breaks Aeneas’s ships apart as Boreas and Eurus drive them onto rocks and sandbanks, drowning crews and tossing bodies and cargo, while Aeneas laments Trojan dead and lost heroes.
my sov’reign’s grace; and, as your guest, I sit with gods at their celestial feast; Raise tempests at your pleasure, or subdue; Dispose of empire, which I hold from you.” He said, and hurl’d against the mountain side His quiv’ring spear, and all the god applied. The raging winds rush thro’ the hollow wound, And dance aloft in air, and skim along the ground; Then, settling on the sea, the surg…
Ilioneus asks Dido to shelter the Trojans, stop fires against their ships, and allow repairs, explaining their storm-driven arrival and their route toward Italy after Troy’s devastation.
sue for leave to land their sickly men, And gain admission to the gracious queen. Ent’ring, with cries they fill’d the holy fane; Then thus, with lowly voice, Ilioneus began: “O Queen! indulg’d by favour of the gods To found an empire in these new abodes, To build a town, with statutes to restrain The wild inhabitants beneath thy reign, We wretched Trojans, toss’d on ev’ry shore, From s…
Upon arriving on the coast, Equiano sees a slave ship at anchor, is boarded with brutal inspection and intimidation, faints from horror, and is told of the violence and punishment awaiting enslaved people.
The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both the males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war. The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon converted into terror when I was carried on board. I…
On the second day they reach Obbico, run out of water, search fruitlessly through thick woods and keys, then finally spot a vessel and board it fearing pirates.
thing should happen; and our stock of provisions consisted of three gallons of rum, four of water, some salt beef, some biscuit; and in this manner we proceeded to sea. On the second day of our voyage we came to an island called Obbico, the largest of the Bahama islands. We were much in want of water; for by this time our water was expended, and we were exceedingly fatigued in pulling two days in the heat of the sun…
Equiano learns the boarded sloop is a wrecker belonging to people from a wrecked whaling schooner, and they agree to recover others and sail with their group to New Providence.
on board; but how great was our surprise, as soon as we got on board, to find that the major part of them were in the same predicament as ourselves! They belonged to a whaling schooner that was wrecked two days before us about nine miles to the north of our vessel. When she was wrecked some of them had taken to their boats and had left some of their people and property on a key, in the same manner as we had done; an…
They sail from the longer Abbico toward New Providence, stock up on water and shellfish, then survive a violent gale that wrecks anchors and later allows rescue by a buoy and rope.
or victual for any moderate length of time; they therefore hired the schooner's people to work on our wreck, and we left them our boat, and embarked for New Providence. Nothing could have been more fortunate than our meeting with this wrecker, for New Providence was at such a distance that we never could have reached it in our boat. The island of Abbico was much longer than we expected; and it was not till after sai…
In March 1775 Equiano embarks again for Cadiz, survives a Sunday shipwreck near the Bay of Cadiz, praises divine guidance, visits Gibraltar and Malaga, and disputes with Father Vincent about Catholic practice and Bible reading.
my passage lie, Yet Christ shall safely keep and guide me with his eye. How can I sink with such a prop, That bears the world and all things up?" At this time there were many large Spanish flukers or passage-vessels full of people crossing the channel; who seeing our condition, a number of them came alongside of us. As many hands as could be employed began to work; some at our three pumps, and the rest unloading the…
Sancho abruptly ends the story because he cannot remember the exact goat count, Don Quixote praises the tale’s rarity, then Rocinante remains stuck while Sancho struggles with relieving himself and fears being heard.
Sancho, “what I told you, that you must keep a good count; well then, by God, there is an end of the story, for there is no going any farther.” “How can that be?” said Don Quixote; “is it so essential to the story to know to a nicety the goats that have crossed over, that if there be a mistake of one in the reckoning, thou canst not go on with it?” “No, señor, not a bit,” replied Sancho; “for when I asked your wors…
It continues 1073–1074, repeating the devastation of Maine, then narrating child Edgar’s arrival in Scotland, diplomatic gift exchange with Malcolm and Margaret, shipwreck, and William granting him rights.
much injured by destroying the vineyards, burning the towns, and spoiling the land. But they subdued it all into the hand of King William, and afterwards returned home to England. A.D. 1074. This year King William went over sea to Normandy; and child Edgar came from Flanders into Scotland on St. Grimbald's mass-day; where King Malcolm and his sister Margaret received him with much pomp. At the same time sent Phili…
Darwin describes hardships and eerie night-watch life in the Fuegian islands, then details January 20 arrival at the Beagle Channel’s split and a glacier-and-iceberg encounter near the northern arm.
and hard; sand gets into one's meat, when cooked and eaten boat-fashion; but when lying in our blanket-bags, on a good bed of smooth pebbles, we passed most comfortable nights. It was my watch till one o'clock. There is something very solemn in these scenes. At no time does the consciousness in what a remote corner of the world you are then standing, come so strongly before the mind. Everything tends to this effe…
Darwin explains Indigenous subsistence and trading on Lemuy and Caylén, including shellfish and potatoes, and reports local fears and measures for preventing night robberies during the Beagle’s anchorage.
latter article was required for a very innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and the gunpowder was wanted for making a noise on their saint or feast days. The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes. At certain seasons they catch also, in "corrales," or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the mud-banks as the tide falls. They occasionally possess fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, hors…
Caesar sails to Britain, lands without encountering enemies despite enemy forces hiding, fights in and around a river approach and woods-fortifications, then suffers shipwrecks from a storm and begins ship repair and refortification.
that "he was free and the subject of a free state." They surround and kill the man as they had been commanded; but the Aeduan horsemen all return to Caesar. VIII.--When these things were done [and] Labienus, left on the continent with three legions and 2000 horse, to defend the harbours and provide corn, and discover what was going on in Gaul, and take measures according to the occasion and according to the circumst…
A north-wind storm nearly wrecks the ships for twenty-four hours as they anchor by ropes, then after finding an inner harbour they land near Potonchan, get wells and plantations, and struggle to load water under attack.
of Indians, we durst not venture to re-embark where we had at first landed, as they would no doubt have fallen upon us while we were getting into our boats. After we had thus managed to get our water safe on board and re-embark at the small harbour which the bay here forms, we continued our course for six days and six nights without interruption, the weather being very fine. But now the wind suddenly veered round to…
They decide to return to Cuba, burn the smallest vessel to manage damaged crews, suffer extreme thirst after losing water barrels, search for fresh water at an inlet called Lizard Bay, endure another storm, and sail toward Florida then Havana.
_We resolve to return to Cuba. The extreme thirst we suffered, and all the fatigues we underwent until our arrival in the port of Havannah._ After we had got into our vessels, as above related, and returned thanks to God for our preservation, we commenced dressing our wounds. None of us had escaped without two, three, or four wounds. Our captain had as many as twelve, and there was only one single soldier wh…
After the skirmish, the narrator searches for Berrio, believing he was carried off alive, then suffers a disastrous voyage to Havana when the ship strikes rocks and crew resentment erupts at the pumps.
of the boat again. Twenty-two of the enemy lay dead on the shore; three others, who were slightly wounded, we took on board with us, but they died soon after. After this skirmish was ended, we questioned the soldier who had stood sentinel as to what had become of his companion, Berrio. He related that his comrade had left him with an axe in his hand, in order to go and cut down a palm-tree, and that this was near th…
Eudoxus concludes circumnavigation of Libya is possible, equips fleets, sails toward India, suffers shipwreck, reaches people of similar language and stock, returns, travels to Bogus, and plots trigger fear and attempted abandonment.
as far as the Lixus.[655] Some of the pilots professed to recognise the prow as that of a vessel which had sailed beyond the river Lixus, but had not returned.[656] From this Eudoxus drew the conclusion, that it was possible to circumnavigate Libya; he therefore returned home, and having collected together the whole of his substance, set out on his travels. First he visited Dicæarchia,[657] and then Marseilles, and …
Strabo repeats Nearchus’s account of whales at sea near India and then reports how Nearchus disproved a feared island, confirming it was not the cause of a vanished ship.
waves, and supply the Ichthyophagi with the above-mentioned material for the construction of their cabins. According to Nearchus, the size of these animals is three and twenty orguiæ in length.[438] [CAS. 726] Nearchus says that he proved the confident belief of the sailors in the existence of an island situated in the passage, and destructive to those who anchored near it, to be false. A bark in its course, when i…
He advises valuing virtues over entertainment, analyzing performances (singing, dancing, pancratium) part by part to see how shame prevents sincere confession of being controlled by them.
And other things of the same kind. After tragedy the old comedy was introduced, which had a magisterial freedom of speech, and by its very plainness of speaking was useful in reminding men to beware of insolence; and for this purpose too Diogenes used to take from these writers. But as to the middle comedy, which came next, observe what it was, and again, for what object the new comedy was introduced, which gradual…
He explains Antarctic cold via high polar land and barrier ice (Victoria Land, Mount Erebus, Graham’s and Enderby’s Land), compares iceberg drift limits between hemispheres, and speculates about iceberg hazards to the Mediterranean.
the present continents are not opposite to it; and this circumstance seems explicable only on the principle above alluded to, of the radiation of heat from the lands so situated. The cold of the antarctic regions was conjectured by Cook to be due to the existence of a large tract of land between the seventieth degree of south latitude and the pole. The justness of these and other speculations of that great navigator…
Lyell argues that some animals can cross water via drift—ice-floes carrying polar bears and wolves—and via floating islands of drift-wood moving from tropical rivers toward the sea.
Volcanic eruptions, which, at different times have covered the summits of some of those lofty cones with sterile sand and ashes, may have occasionally contributed to force on these migrations. *Drifting of animals on ice-floes.*--The power of the terrestrial mammalia to cross the sea is very limited, and it was before stated that the same species is scarcely ever common to districts widely separated by the ocean. If…
Lyell explains how rivers, floods, and shipwrecks can carry human bodies into seas and lakes, where some may survive by being buried and protected in certain subaqueous deposits.
IMBEDDING OF THE REMAINS OF MAN AND HIS WORKS IN SUBAQUEOUS STRATA. Drifting of human bodies to the sea by river inundations--Destruction of bridges and houses--Loss of lives by shipwreck--How human corpses may be preserved in recent deposits--Number of wrecked vessels--Fossil skeletons of men--Fossil canoes, ships, and works of art--Chemical changes which metallic articles have undergone after l…
He argues that wrecked canoes and ships near coral reefs or delta sediments can be preserved if rapidly buried by mud, sand, volcanic ash, or lava, creating long-lasting fossil-like remains.
corals and shells are becoming agglutinated into a solid rock, or subside where the delta of a river is advancing, they may be preserved for an incalculable series of ages. Often at the distance of a few hundred feet from a coral reef, where wrecks are not unfrequent, there are no soundings at the depth of many hundred fathoms. Canoes, merchant vessels, and ships of war, may have sunk and have been enveloped, in suc…
Lyell estimates the scale of wrecks in naval wars and merchant commerce, describing British ship losses, cannon-and-coin cargoes, and how storms and shoals often exceed enemy danger.
warlike stores, may press down with their weight the timbers of the vessel as they decay, and beneath these and the metallic substances the bones of man may be preserved. *Number of wrecked vessels.*--When we reflect on the number of curious monuments consigned to the bed of the ocean in the course of every naval war from the earliest times, our conceptions are greatly raised respecting the multiplicity of lasting m…
He describes human skeletons preserved in West Indian calcareous formations near Guadaloupe, and compares similar preservation of shipwrecks and tools found in rocks or silted strata elsewhere.
suppose that these bodies are of extremely high antiquity, or that they were buried when that part of the surrounding delta where they occur was first gained from the sea. *Fossil skeletons of men.*--Several skeletons of men, more or less mutilated, have been found in the West Indies, on the north-west coast of the main land of Guadaloupe, in a kind of rock which is known to be forming daily, and which consists of m…
Lyell gives examples of preserved vessels and canoes—such as a Purbeck ship in Poole harbor and dug-up ships near the Baltic, Indus delta, and Nova Scotia—arguing that burial by sediment and sudden tidal events protect remains.
shores of the Baltic, especially in Pomerania. Between Bromberg and Nakel, for example, a vessel and two anchors in a very perfect state were dug up far from the sea.[1086] Several vessels have been lately detected half buried in the delta of the Indus, in the numerous deserted branches of that river, far from where the stream now flows. One of these found near Vikkar in Sinde, was 400 tons in burthen, old fashioned…
Lyell provides examples of stranded whales and a narwhal, then describes turtle eggs fossilized on Ascension Island and suggests how a wave and sand burial preserved casts.
Fossil eggs of turtles from the Island of Ascension.[1109]] *Marine reptiles.*--Some singular fossils have lately been discovered in the Island of Ascension, in a stone said to be continually forming on the beach, where the waves threw up small rounded fragments of shells and corals, which, in the course of time, become firmly agglutinated together, and constitute a stone used largely for building and making lime. I…
After defeat, the pupil is ashamed for three days, but indulgence from his mother prevents discipline, and he resumes antics like masquerades, argues about wigs, and threatens a tailor over a pocket mistake.
my quiet to be disturbed, for they never proceeded to avowed indignities, but contented themselves to murmur in secret, and, whenever I turned my eye upon them, shrunk into stillness. He was, however, desirous of withdrawing from the subjection which he could not venture to break, and made a secret appointment to assist his companions in the persecution of a play. His footman privately procured him a catcall, on wh…
At about age twenty-six, Josephus travels to Rome to secure priests imprisoned by Felix, recounts surviving a shipwreck in the Adriatic, and uses connections with Poppaea to gain their release.
possible, to entreat her to procure that the priests might be set at liberty. And when, besides this favor, I had obtained many presents from Poppea, I returned home again. 4. And now I perceived innovations were already begun, and that there were a great many very much elevated in hopes of a revolt from the Romans. I therefore endeavored to put a stop to these tumultuous persons, and persuaded them to change their …
Tacitus narrates a daring action by a cohort of Usipii in Britain, who turn to piracy after killing Roman instructors, survive storms by feeding on each other, and are finally intercepted and enslaved.
being sold for slaves, by the change of masters were brought to the Roman side of the river, [109] and became notorious from the relation of their extraordinary adventures. [110] 29. In the beginning of the next summer, [111] Agricola received a severe domestic wound in the loss of a son, about a year old. He bore this calamity, not with the ostentatious firmness which many have affected, nor yet with the tears and …
Darwin continues cross-cultural evidence: cites biblical and travel accounts (Jeremiah, Arabs on the Nile, Chinese in Malacca, Polynesians in New Zealand, Fuegians and others), arguing that blushing depends on shame and social awareness.
Mr. Swinhoe has seen the Chinese blushing, but he thinks it is rare; yet they have the expression “to redden with shame.” Mr. Geach informs me that the Chinese settled in Malacca and the native Malays of the interior both blush. Some of these people go nearly naked, and he particularly attended to the downward extension of the blush. Omitting the cases in which the face alone was seen to blush, Mr. Geach observed tha…
Darwin argues blushing begins from self-attention focused on personal appearance rather than moral conduct, emphasizing that ridicule, staring, praise, and heightened attention about the face make people blush more readily.
it has arisen that the consciousness that others are attending to our personal appearance should have led to the capillaries, especially those of the face, instantly becoming filled with blood. My reasons for believing that attention directed to personal appearance, and not to moral conduct, has been the fundamental element in the acquirement of the habit of blushing, will now be given. They are separately light, bu…
Halcyone’s remembered grief is echoed as Ceyx’s Trachinian ship leaves harbour; a sudden storm drives frantic, disordered efforts to save the vessel, overwhelming the sailors despite the master’s authority.
anxiously seeks her deserted bed, and lays herself on the couch. The bed, and the spot, renew the tears of Halcyone, and remind her what part {of herself} is wanting. They have {now} gone out of harbour, and the breeze shakes the rigging; the sailor urges the pendent oars towards their sides;[38] and fixes the sailyards[39] on the top of the mast, and spreads the canvass full from the mast, and catches the coming br…
The storm worsens: waxed seams fail, rain and thunder flood the ship, waves batter it like a siege, and the crew’s courage collapses as they await death in terror and prayer.
extended {against them}; so the water, when upon the rising of the winds it had rushed onwards, advanced against the rigging of the ship, and was much higher than it. And now the bolts shrink, and despoiled of their covering of wax,[40] the seams open wide, and afford a passage to the fatal waves. Behold! vast showers fall from the dissolving clouds, and you would believe that the whole of the heavens is descending …
Ceyx, remembering Halcyone, loses control as the mast and helm break; he clings to wreckage while many drown, and his last thoughts are his wife’s name as darkness covers him.
aid. His brothers and his parent recur to the mind of another; to another, his home, with his pledges {of affection}, and {so} what has been left behind by each. {The remembrance of} Halcyone affects Ceyx; on the lips of Ceyx there is nothing but Halcyone; and though her alone he regrets, still he rejoices that she is absent. {Gladly}, too, would he look back to the shore of his native land, and turn his last glance…
Chanticleer concludes that dreams should not be dismissed, then recounts another tale where a contrary man’s dream warning prevents drowning by altering a sea voyage that otherwise ends in shipwreck.
carter, and so sore him pined,** *seized **tortured And eke the hostelere so sore engined,* *racked That they beknew* their wickedness anon, *confessed And were hanged by the necke bone. “Here may ye see that dreames be to dread. And certes in the same book I read, Right in the nexte chapter after this (I gabbe* not, so have I joy and bliss), *talk idly Two men that would, have passed over sea, …
In response to reformers, the author argues people are not merely animals but complex beings with shame and moral striving, while still doubting whether selective breeding can reliably improve descendants or eliminate inherited vice and disease.
may think of such speculations, we can hardly deny that they have been more rife in this generation than in any other; and whither they are tending, who can predict? To the doubts and queries raised by these ‘social reformers’ respecting the relation of the sexes and the moral nature of man, there is a sufficient answer, if any is needed. The difference about them and us is really one of fact. They are speaking of m…
On Wednesday Boswell and Johnson finally board a small craft toward Mull but delay sailing until morning tide due to danger, sharing dry oatmeal and cramped cabin lodging before departure.
do it; and you are longer a boy than others.' He himself has no alertness, or whatever it may be called; so he may dislike it, as Oderunt hilarem tristes. Before we reached the harbour, the wind grew high again. However, the small boat was waiting, and took us on board. We remained for some time in uncertainty what to do: at last it was determined, that, as a good part of the day was over, and it was dangerous to be…
Evelyn argues about what tree the Old Testament oak referred to, then praises English oak for strength, toughness, and suitability for construction, shipbuilding, and industrial uses.
Nail’d were his feet to cedar, to palm his hands; Cypress his Body bore, title on olive stands:{52:1} And for this of the palm, they fetch it from that of 7 *Cant.* 8. where ’tis said, *ascendam in palmam, & apprehendam fructus ejus*, and from other allegorical and mysterious expressions of the Sacred Text, without any manner of probability; whilst by Alphonsus Ciacconius, Lipsius, Angelus Rocca, Falconius, and dive…
Flosi sets off abroad with his men from Hornfirth, but after losing navigation and encountering storms and three huge waves, the shipwreck forces survival on land and searching for shelter.
"Then let us suffer them to ride on," said Bjorn. So those three rode on past them; but the six others then came riding right up to them, and they all leapt off their horses straightway in a body, and turned on Kari and his companion. First, Glum Hildir's son rushed at them, and thrust at Kari with a spear; Kari turned short round on his heel, and Glum missed him, and the blow fell against the rock. Bjorn sees tha…
The Argonauts’ arrival is framed as a storm-driven shipwreck that brings Phrixus’s sons and the Argo to a wooded island near the land of the Mossynoeci, where the bewildered arrivals ask for aid.
What then was the purpose of Phineus in bidding the divine band of heroes land there? Or what kind of help was about to meet their desire? The sons of Phrixus were faring towards the city of Orchomenus from Aea, coming from Cytaean Aeetes, on board a Colchian ship, to win the boundless wealth of their father; for he, when dying, had enjoined this journey upon them. And lo, on that day they were very near that island…
As Landolfo sails home through the Archipelago, Genoese carracks capture his bark, sink it, and a shipwreck off Cephalonia leaves him clinging to a chest until Corfu’s shore.
with the armament and all things else meet for such service, took to scouring the seas as a rover, preying upon all folk alike, but more particularly upon the Turk. In this enterprise he was more favoured by Fortune than in his trading adventures. A year had scarce gone by before he had taken so many ships from the Turk that not only had he recovered the fortune which he had lost in trade, but was well on the way to…
Alatiel, daughter of the Soldan of Babylon Beminedab, is sent by ship from Alexandria to be married to the King of Algarve, but a storm wrecks the voyage and leaves her stranded on Majorca.
to make you acquainted with the coil of misadventures in which her beauty involved a fair Saracen, who in the course of, perhaps, four years was wedded nine several times. There was of yore a Soldan of Babylon (1), by name of Beminedab, who in his day had cause enough to be well content with his luck. Many children male and female had he, and among them a daughter, Alatiel by name, who by common consent of all that …
Alatiel recounts her adventures since the wreck at Majorca, and Antigono promises to restore her honor by persuading the King of Cyprus to send her back to her father with his escort.
means whereby I may be reinstated in my former honour, I pray thee use it. If not, disclose to none that thou hast seen me or heard aught of me." Then, weeping between every word, she told him her whole story from the day of the shipwreck at Majorca to that hour. Antigono wept in sympathy, and then said:--"Madam, as throughout this train of misfortunes you have happily escaped recognition, I undertake to restore you…
Gostanza, hearing Martuccio Gomito has died at sea, secretly sails in a fishing boat from Lipari, expecting suicide but instead is carried to Susa in Barbary.
their captors, who, after sinking his ship, took Martuccio with them to Tunis, and clapped him in prison, and there kept him a long time in a very sad plight. Meanwhile, not by one or two, but by divers and not a few persons, tidings reached Lipari that all that were with Martuccio aboard his bark had perished in the sea. The damsel, whose grief on Martuccio's departure had known no bounds, now hearing that he was d…
On the Antelope’s South Sea voyage from Bristol (May 4, 1699), a violent storm drives the ship north-west of Van Diemen’s Land; it wrecks on a rock, the boat overturns, and Gulliver survives by swimming toward shore.
Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous. It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van D…
Swiftly carried by an eagle, his box is dropped into the sea and survives due to iron plates, tight joints, and a sealed roof, though he fears death from cold, hunger, and leaks.
it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board. In a little time, I observed the noise and flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign in a windy day. I heard several bangs or buffets, as I thought given to the eagle (for such I am certain it must have been t…
Cast ashore on a rocky island, the narrator survives on eggs and sea-weed, sleeps uneasily in a cave, and witnesses a massive “island in the air” sliding toward him, briefly hiding the sun.
with a particular account of my distresses, let it suffice, that on the fifth day I arrived at the last island in my sight, which lay south-south-east to the former. This island was at a greater distance than I expected, and I did not reach it in less than five hours. I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.…