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Title: The Boy Slaves

Author: Mayne Reid

Release Date: February 26, 2010 [EBook #31410]

Language: English

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THE BOY SLAVES.

BY CAPT. MAYNE REID

AUTHOR OF "THE DESERT HOME," "THE OCEAN WAIFS," ETC.

With Illustrations.

A NEW EDITION,
WITH A MEMOIR BY R. H. STODDARD.

NEW YORK:
THOMAS R. KNOX & CO.,
Successors to James Miller,
813 Broadway.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1884, by
THOMAS R. KNOX & CO.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

New York, January 1st, 1869.
Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co.:--

I accept the terms offered, and hereby concede to you the exclusive
right of publication, in the United States, of all my juvenile Tales
of Adventure, known as Boys' Novels.

MAYNE REID.

TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.

[Illustration: THE DEATH OF GOLAH.]

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

Captain Mayne Reid is pleased to have had the help of an American Author
in preparing for publication this story of "The Boy Slaves," and takes
the present opportunity of acknowledging that help, which has kindly
extended beyond matters of merely external form, to points of narrative
and composition, which are here embodied with the result of his own
labor.

The Rancho, December, 1864.

MEMOIR OF MAYNE REID.

No one who has written books for the young during the present century
ever had so large a circle of readers as Captain Mayne Reid, or ever was
so well fitted by circumstances to write the books by which he is
chiefly known. His life, which was an adventurous one, was ripened with
the experience of two Continents, and his temperament, which was an