Using Terminal how do I mount a USB Fat16 formatted drive

I want to be able to look at the files stored on a USB drive (name is TravelDrive) in Terminal. If a enter mount it shows the drive on /dev/disk1s1 but can't figure out how to actually mount it

These commands worked for me:
sudo mkdir /volumes/traveldrive //Create Mount Point
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /volumes/traveldrive //Mount Volume
I was just curious about how to do this in terminal.

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