![]() ![]() Mark Twain is still the favorite armchair traveling companion. ![]() He was as sensible of the beauty of the islands (he felt Captain Cook should have named them the Rainbow Islands) as he was of the warmth of the people. He pondered on the royal succession and Captain Cook's end, endured a brief rough voyage aboard the Boomerang, visited Mt. He found the King admirable, the hula hula a declining art. Mark Twain witnessed the proceedings of the Legislature and the month long mourning over the funeral of the Princess Victoria Kamamalu Kaahuman. Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Brown, improbable travelling companion, and Oahu, the spavined steed who barely bore the author about. If I do not get out of debt in three months pistols or poison for. His utterly serious coverage of ""The Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea"" made him a literary personage, but most of his letters glint with an ill-concealed sense of fun-a puckish humor delivered with perfect timing. In a little-known 1865 letter to his brother, Twain wrote that he was contemplating suicide unless his fortunes improved. He wrote of the sugar and whaling industry, of captains and kings. ![]() He voyaged out to the Sandwich Islands in March, 1866, and while there wrote twenty-five pieces for the Sacramento Union. The 25 letters, written during Twains four-month visit, were not published as a book until 1947. Mark Twain's letters from Hawaii are a hundred years old and fresh as a 1966 penny. Letters from Hawaii is a collection of 25 letters that Mark Twain wrote from Hawaii in 1866 as a special correspondent for the Sacramento Union newspaper. ![]()
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