VOYAGES UNDER ARCTURUS

VOYAGES UNDER ARCTURUS
Ancients discovery of HAWAI’I

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhom Clemens) said of Hawai’i: “No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through three quarters of a lifetime as this one had done. Other things leave me, but it abides me; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; pulsing of it surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the woodland solicitude, I can hear the slash of its brooks: in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.”