...ement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND ... ...the sky -- Dangers of an angry ocean -- Imagination of the sailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sa... ...usband -- Horses and oxen of the sea -- Monstrous serpents and other frightful forms 70-79 CHAPTER VI. Story of the doomed Bishop. -- Condemned to pas... ...from the north once swept over all Europe and North America, and destroyed all forms of life in those regions, is it not within reason to suppose that... ...e waves beneath, the eye of superstition should people the deep with unnatural forms; it is not wonderful that in the circling clouds he should behold... ...rolled into his cheek, his sea slang, his garrulity, his never ending stock of narrative, his love of the marvellous, his contempt for the land-lubber... ...e island, showed him all the torments in progress, and gave him material for a narrative closely resembling the story of Dante. Leaving this horrid is... ...started again for the far east, accompanied by the lad, Marco, the hero of our narrative. Directly after their departure Gregory X, who had succeeded ... ...his travels, that it might be published for the benefit of his countrymen. The narrative was written by Rusticiano in the Venetian language, but it wa...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most sava...