Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in
A juvenile adventure novel by Richard Markham, published in New York by Dodd, Mead in 1880, in which ten young people cruise Long Island's east end and hear tales of Vikings, Indians and the Revolution. Wood engravings mix roundel vignettes of oilskinned boatmen with full-page scenes of snowy pursuits, mounted warriors and shipwreck—useful for maritime figures and dense crosshatched landscape.
