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"The loveliest fleet of islands"
-- Mark Twain
Thirty-year-old Samuel Clemens, who had recently adopted the pen name Mark Twain, arrived in Hawaii in 1866 to write a series of travel letters for a Sacramento newspaper. He explored Oahu, traveled to Maui and climbed Haleakala, and visited the Big Island of Hawaii and the fiery crater of Kilauea.
Twain stayed four months and fell in love with Hawaii. Years later he famously described it as "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean." |