MARK TWAIN

miral in argument, destroyed him with his own
guns, it is easy to recognize Brown.

We can imagine him sitting with Brown
through long afternoons, smoking and drowsily
talking, looking out over stretches of sea that be-
come more inviting and mysterious as the storms
of the northern latitudes are left behind. The
captain and others would join them, no doubt.
Mark Twain was a name already well known
along the Pacific slope, and known or not, his
personality was a magnet that never failed to
attract company. As the notes continue it is easy
to see that he was falling in love with Hawaii a
good while before he reached it.

Hawaiians indolent and no tenacity of life—no vitality.
On the least possible excuse will lie down and die.

Tremendous solitudes of the Pacific—a lonely sea—
no land in sight for 10 days, and never a solitary ship in
sight

He seems to have begun to make maxims
about this time, a habit that would grow on him
in later years.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would
work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take
a drink—under any circumstances.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm.
Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man
who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

But the rough weather was not all gone.

March 12, Monday. Roughest night of the voyage, last
night—ship rolled heavily. Still rougher this morning till
ii o'clock when course was altered to west, which eased

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