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  • Mallicollo, Apee, &c. were names entirely unknown to them; they even knew nothing of Sandwich Island, which is much nearer.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

  • He particularly admired the “long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • He particularly admired the “long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • He arranged what he hoped would be his farewell lecture, a reprise of his Sandwich Island triumph, on November 16.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He journeyed the ninety miles northeast to Sacramento, where he handed the editors a bill for his Sandwich Island pieces at twenty dollars per letter, and then audaciously hit them up for a hundred dollars for the shipwreck saga—per column, or three hundred dollars total.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He arranged what he hoped would be his farewell lecture, a reprise of his Sandwich Island triumph, on November 16.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He journeyed the ninety miles northeast to Sacramento, where he handed the editors a bill for his Sandwich Island pieces at twenty dollars per letter, and then audaciously hit them up for a hundred dollars for the shipwreck saga—per column, or three hundred dollars total.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Sandwich Island chapters of ‘Roughing It’, five years later.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Early in the year (January 3 and 6, 1873) he contributed two Sandwich Island letters to the Tribune, in which, in his own peculiar fashion, he urged annexation.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • A Sandwich Island book (he had collected his Union letters with the idea of a volume) he gave up altogether after one unsuccessful offer of it to Dick & Fitzgerald.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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