Ocean Waifs
Thomas Mayne Reid
100 chapters · 12 h 42 min · English
Read by Anton, Deon Gines, Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan, Vaughan McCarthy, Kathrine Engan, Doug Fajardo and others
Action & Adventure
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"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention.
It is a raft, with a disc not much larger than a dining-table, constructed out of two small spars of a ship, the dolphin-striker and spritsail yard, with two broad planks and some narrower ones lashed crosswise, and over all two or three pieces of sail-cloth carelessly spread." So begins this adventure, both on land and on sea! (Summary adapted from chapter 1)
Chapters
1 The Albatross 5 min 2 Ship on Fire 9 min 3 The Lord's Prayer 8 min 4 Hunger-Despair 6 min 5 Faith-Hope 6 min 6 Flying-Fish 9 min 7 A Cheering Cloud 6 min 8 A Canvas Tank 7 min 9 A Pleasant Shower-Bath 8 min 10 The Pilot-Fish 11 min 11 A Lenten Dinner 9 min 12 Flensing a Shark 8 min 13 The Sucking-Fish 7 min 14 A Sail of Shark-Flesh 6 min 15 The Mysterious Voice 8 min 16 Other Waifs 8 min 17 How Snowball Escaped From the Slaver 8 min 18 Snowball Amid the Drift 9 min 19 Snowball at Sea on a Hencoop 7 min 20 The Flashing of Lightning 7 min 21 To the Oars 7 min 22 Ship Ahoy! 9 min 23 The Rafts en Rapport 5 min 24 Reconstructing the Raft 7 min 25 The Catamaran 7 min 26 Little William and Lilly Lalee 6 min 27 Too Late! 9 min 28 'Overboard!' 7 min 29 Saved! 7 min 30 The Zygaena 11 min 31 Face to Face 6 min 32 A Ring Performance 8 min 33 The Chase of the Catamaran 9 min 34 The Sail out of Sight 7 min 35 Waiting for Death 7 min 36 A Chest at Sea 6 min 37 An Improvised Life-Preserver 5 min 38 Conjectures about the Catamaran 10 min 39 Down the Wind 7 min 40 Launching the Life-Preserver 8 min 41 A Lookout from Aloft 9 min 42 One More Aboard 7 min 43 Refitting the Raft 8 min 44 The Albacores 7 min 45 The Sword-Fish 5 min 46 The Swordsman of the Sea 7 min 47 Angling the Albacore 14 min 48 The Frigate-Bird 11 min 49 Between Two Tyrants 9 min 50 Snowball Making a Somersault 6 min 51 A Thrust Through and Through 7 min 52 An Awkward Grip 9 min 53 Gloomy Prospects 5 min 54 Thanksgiving 11 min 55 Snowball Sees Land 6 min 56 Is It Land? 10 min 57 The King of the Cannibal Islands 7 min 58 Very Like a Whale 8 min 59 Aboard the Body of a Whale 6 min 60 A Curious Cuisine 6 min 61 An Assembly of Sharks 6 min 62 A Dangerous Equilibrium 8 min 63 A Harpoon Well Handled 7 min 64 The Thick Waters 8 min 65 A Whale on Fire! 7 min 66 The Big Raft 13 min 67 A Crew of Cannibals 11 min 68 The Lottery of Life and Death 12 min 69 A Challenge Declined 8 min 70 An Unexpected Termination 7 min 71 Le Gros on Trial 5 min 72 A Duel to the Death 5 min 73 Hate Against Hate 12 min 74 A Light! 7 min 75 Towards the Beacon! 8 min 76 A Double Darkness 6 min 77 A Whispered Conspiracy 7 min 78 A Foul Deed Done in a Fog 6 min 79 Dousing the Glim 6 min 80 Suspicious Sounds 5 min 81 Unpleasant Conjectures 10 min 82 An Informal Inquest 6 min 83 Slipping the Cable 7 min 84 The Chase 6 min 85 Nearer and Nearer 6 min 86 Cut in Twain 7 min 87 An Unlooked-for Deliverance 6 min 88 A Threatened Storm 12 min 89 A Startling Shriek 7 min 90 A Madman in Mid-ocean 8 min 91 The Insane Swimmer 6 min 92 Boarding the Boat 7 min 93 The Catamaran Abandoned 7 min 94 A 'School' of Sperm-Whales 11 min 95 Worse Off Than Ever 6 min 96 The Darkest Hour 7 min 97 A Cheering Cup 6 min 98 A Phantom Ship or a Ship on Fire? 8 min 99 A Whaler 'Trying Out' 8 min 100 The End of the 'Yarn' 7 min