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 (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 164
A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. At length, after days and days of toil, the little armyreached the head-waters of the Kennebec, where the stream wasto be left, and the forest crossed that lay between them and thehead-waters of the Chaudiere. And now they were in perilindeed. They were too far along to go back,… … DOG-SOUP FOR DINNER. 167 seemed almost certain death. Storm after storm came uponthem. In a single night the streams rose ten feet, so that theywere often up to their waists in the icy water. And, worst of all,their provisions gave out. Many lay down and died in theirmisery. To push on, and reach…
American Revolution (1775-1783) · Young men · Young women · Sailing · Seafaring life · Vikings · Ship captains
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