Project Gutenberg 2010-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 413 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.) Reading ease score: 75.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Slavery -- Fiction Sahara -- Fiction PZ Text Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 622749 2025-08-13T04:16:55.333867 text/html 628842 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/html 605994 2025-08-13T04:17:04.673804 application/epub+zip 614043 2025-08-13T04:16:57.641939 application/epub+zip 305492 2025-08-13T04:16:56.323850 application/epub+zip 858209 2025-08-13T04:17:11.029816 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 795768 2025-08-13T04:17:03.740876 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 460951 2022-09-14T11:44:44.691787 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 588588 2025-08-13T04:16:53.957885 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 588410 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 588473 2010-02-26T09:59:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20653 2025-08-13T04:17:11.177774 application/rdf+xml 8859 2025-08-13T04:16:56.842882 image/jpeg 2549 2025-08-13T04:16:56.582860 image/jpeg 216758 2010-02-26T09:59:44 application/octet-stream application/zip 525537 2010-02-26T09:59:46 application/octet-stream application/zip 216698 2010-02-26T09:59:44 application/octet-stream application/zip 586807 2025-08-13T04:16:55.391847 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia