Jury-Law books

There were shells, corals, sea-ivory--curios, such as are collected by
seamen the world over. Cap'n Abe was an indefatigable gatherer of such
wares. There was a green sea chest standing with its lid wide open,
tarred rope handles on its ends, that may have been around the world a
score of times. It was half filled with old books.
All the dusty, musty volumes in the chest seemed to deal with the sea
and sea-going. Many of them, long since out of print and forgotten,
recounted strange and almost unbelievable romances of nautical
life--stories of wrecks, fires, battles with savages and pirates,
discoveries of lone islands and marvelous explorations in lands which,
since the date of publication, have become semi-civilized or altogether
so.
Here were narratives of men who had sailed around the world in tiny
craft like Captain Slocum; stories of seamen who had become chiefs of
cannibal tribes, like the famous Larry O'Brien; several supposedly
veracious narratives of the survivors of the Bounty; stories of Arctic
and Antarctic discovery and privation.


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