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 30
wealthy and powerful man of distinguishedfamily, made a journey to the new world with three ships. Heplanned to form a colony. His wife Gudrida went with him ;and a son, Snorri, was no doubt the first Christian boy born inAmerica. For Leif and Thorvald and Thorstein had all beenconverted to… … A SECOND THORFINN THE SKULLSPLITTER. 33 He took with him, as cargo, all the wood that he could carry,and sold it in Norway at an enormous price. For a small pieceof what was probably birds-eye maple, he received about eightydollars. So you see, Master Jack, said Mr. Longvvood, rising, thatColumbus…
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