Project Gutenberg 2010-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 157 Reid, Mayne 1818 1883 Mayne-Reid, Captain Reid, Thomas Mayne The Boy Slaves Produced by Mary Meehan and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Boy Slaves" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel written in the mid-19th century. The story follows a group of young boys, midshipmen in the British navy, who find themselves shipwrecked and drifting at sea after their corvette sinks. As they navigate the challenges of survival, they also face the imminent threat of enslavement, intertwining themes of adventure and peril within a narrative set against the backdrop of Africa's treacherous coast. The opening of the tale introduces the boys—Harry Blount, Terence O'Connor, and Colin Macpherson—three young midshipmen who find themselves on a topsail-yard, having escaped their sunken ship. They are accompanied by Old Bill, a sailor who cannot swim. Their struggle against the sea is marked by desperation and a fight for survival, which culminates in their eventual landing on a barren sand-spit. Exhausted and soaked, they feel the looming dangers of both the ocean and the encroaching tide, only to soon awaken from a deep sleep to discover their precarious situation further complicated by a rising storm. Their initial encounter with a dromedary and the discovery of its water supply set the stage for their quest for food and shelter in an unknown land, highlighting the tension between adventure and the ever-present threat of capture. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Slavery -- Fiction Sahara -- Fiction PZ Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 622621 622645 2024-09-13T09:39:58.627350 2023-09-14T04:10:35.578734 text/html text/html 628842 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 525537 2010-02-26T09:59:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 585901 2024-09-13T09:40:07.993798 application/epub+zip 594188 2024-09-13T09:40:00.419409 application/epub+zip 285577 2024-09-13T09:39:59.381340 application/epub+zip 831145 2024-09-13T09:40:14.756768 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 768580 2024-09-13T09:40:07.182818 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 460951 2022-09-14T11:44:44.691787 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 588588 588505 2024-09-13T09:39:56.997454 2023-09-14T04:10:33.951716 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 588410 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 216758 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 588473 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 216698 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20450 2024-09-13T09:40:14.899778 application/rdf+xml 8845 2024-09-13T09:39:59.746339 image/jpeg 2548 2024-09-13T09:39:59.561347 image/jpeg 568845 2024-09-13T09:39:58.689365 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia