NOTEBOOK

notebook. We know that this is so, for he began
another, setting down whatever he could re-
member of the vanished record. It requires no
gift to imagine him clawing over his stateroom,
looking for the missing memoranda, swearing
fervently meanwhile—settling down at last to a
grim acceptance of his loss, scowling and fuming
as with more or less success he recalled his orig-
inal entries. A memory of the weather and sea-
sickness was about all that remained. Very likely
he suspected that his notes had been appropri-
ated, for in the new book he writes on the inner
cover, in a bold defiant hand MARK TWAIN.

12th. Monday. Very rough and rainy all forenoon—
foresail shredded last night.

Rough weather on this route 7 to 8 months of year—
Spring, Fall and Winter—Other 4 months beautiful
weather.

Grown white men and women, handsome and well edu-
cated born in Hawaii.

Lauai has Mormon establishment—claim 5000 converts
—King won't let them practice polygamy, though.

Missionary denominations are four—American, Epis-
copalian, Catholic and Mormon.

He was a long way from the islands, yet, but
was in daily association with a passenger named
Brown, who made his home there. There is no
mention in the diary of "the Old Admiral" a
retired whaleman—a "roaring terrific combina-
tion of wind and lightning and thunder," de-
scribed in the Sandwich Island chapters of
Roughing It, so we may assume that he was a
figment of Mark Twain's rough and ready—his
roughest and readiest—imagination, but in the
quiet passenger "Williams," who routed the Ad-
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