“the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean”

“the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean” In 1866, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was retained by The Sacramento Union newspaper to write a series of articles on Hawaiʻi. Like they get to a lot of people, the Islands struck a chord with Clemens. “It has been six weeks since I touched a pen. In explanation and excuse I offer the fact that I spent that time (with the exception of one week) on the island of Maui. ... I never spent so pleasant a month before.”

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