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Thomas Mayne Reid

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Description:CHAPTER ONE.THE LAND OF THE SLAVE.Land of Ethiope! whose burning centre seems unapproachable as the frozen Pole!Land of the unicorn and the lion, of the crouching panther and the stately elephant, of the camel, the camel-leopard, and the camel-bird! Land of the antelopes, of the wild gemsbok, and the gentle gazelle, land of the gigantic crocodile and huge river-horse, land teeming with animal life, and, last in the list of my apostrophic appellations--last, and that which must grieve the heart to pronounce it, land of the slave!Ah; little do men think, while thus hailing thee, how near may be the dread doom to their own hearths and homes! Little dream they, while expressing their sympathy--alas! too often, as of late shown in England, a hypocritical utterance--little do they suspect, while glibly commiserating the lot of thy sable-skinned children, that hundreds, ay thousands, of their own colour and kindred are held within thy confines, subject to a lot even lowlier than these--a fate far more fearful.Alas! it is even so. While I write, the proud Caucasian, despite his boasted superiority of intellect, despite the whiteness of his skin, may be found by hundreds in the unknown interior, wretchedly toiling, the slave not only of thy oppressors, but the slave of thy slaves!Let us lift that curtain which shrouds thy great Saara, and look upon some pictures that should teach the son of Shem, while despising his brothers Ham and Japhet, that he is not master of the world.------------------------------------------------------------------------Dread is that shore between Susa and Senegal, on the western edge of Africa--by mariners most dreaded of any other in the world. The very thought of it causes the sailor to shiver with affright. And no wonder; on that inhospitable seaboard thousands of his fellows have found a watery grave; and thousands of others a doom far more deplorable than death!There are two great deserts: one of land, the other of water--the Saara and the Atlantic--their contiguity extending through ten degrees of the earth's latitude--an enormous distance. Nothing separates them, save a line existing only in the imagination. The dreary and dangerous wilderness of water kisses the wilderness of sand--not less dreary or dangerous to those whose misfortune it may be to become castaways on this dreaded shore.Alas! it has been the misfortune of many--not hundreds, but thousands. Hundreds of ships, rather than hundreds of men, have suffered wreck and ruin between Susa and Senegal. Perhaps were we to include Roman, Phoenician, and Carthaginian, we might say thousands of ships also.More noted, however, have been the disasters of modern times, during what may be termed the epoch of modern navigation. Within the period of the last three centuries, sailors of almost every maritime nation--at least all whose errand has led them along the eastern edge of the Atlantic--have had reason to regret approximation to those shores, known in ship parlance as the Barbary coast; but which, with a slight alteration in the orthography, might be appropriately styled "Barbarian."Download The Boy Slaves Now!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Boy Slaves - Captain Mayne Reid. To get started finding The Boy Slaves - Captain Mayne Reid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: CHAPTER ONE.THE LAND OF THE SLAVE.Land of Ethiope! whose burning centre seems unapproachable as the frozen Pole!Land of the unicorn and the lion, of the crouching panther and the stately elephant, of the camel, the camel-leopard, and the camel-bird! Land of the antelopes, of the wild gemsbok, and the gentle gazelle, land of the gigantic crocodile and huge river-horse, land teeming with animal life, and, last in the list of my apostrophic appellations--last, and that which must grieve the heart to pronounce it, land of the slave!Ah; little do men think, while thus hailing thee, how near may be the dread doom to their own hearths and homes! Little dream they, while expressing their sympathy--alas! too often, as of late shown in England, a hypocritical utterance--little do they suspect, while glibly commiserating the lot of thy sable-skinned children, that hundreds, ay thousands, of their own colour and kindred are held within thy confines, subject to a lot even lowlier than these--a fate far more fearful.Alas! it is even so. While I write, the proud Caucasian, despite his boasted superiority of intellect, despite the whiteness of his skin, may be found by hundreds in the unknown interior, wretchedly toiling, the slave not only of thy oppressors, but the slave of thy slaves!Let us lift that curtain which shrouds thy great Saara, and look upon some pictures that should teach the son of Shem, while despising his brothers Ham and Japhet, that he is not master of the world.------------------------------------------------------------------------Dread is that shore between Susa and Senegal, on the western edge of Africa--by mariners most dreaded of any other in the world. The very thought of it causes the sailor to shiver with affright. And no wonder; on that inhospitable seaboard thousands of his fellows have found a watery grave; and thousands of others a doom far more deplorable than death!There are two great deserts: one of land, the other of water--the Saara and the Atlantic--their contiguity extending through ten degrees of the earth's latitude--an enormous distance. Nothing separates them, save a line existing only in the imagination. The dreary and dangerous wilderness of water kisses the wilderness of sand--not less dreary or dangerous to those whose misfortune it may be to become castaways on this dreaded shore.Alas! it has been the misfortune of many--not hundreds, but thousands. Hundreds of ships, rather than hundreds of men, have suffered wreck and ruin between Susa and Senegal. Perhaps were we to include Roman, Phoenician, and Carthaginian, we might say thousands of ships also.More noted, however, have been the disasters of modern times, during what may be termed the epoch of modern navigation. Within the period of the last three centuries, sailors of almost every maritime nation--at least all whose errand has led them along the eastern edge of the Atlantic--have had reason to regret approximation to those shores, known in ship parlance as the Barbary coast; but which, with a slight alteration in the orthography, might be appropriately styled "Barbarian."Download The Boy Slaves Now!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Boy Slaves - Captain Mayne Reid. To get started finding The Boy Slaves - Captain Mayne Reid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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