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While visiting the islands in 1866, Mark Twain wrote of Haleakala "There was little conversation, for the impressive scene overawed speech. I felt like the Last Man, neglected of the judgment, and left pinnacled in mid-heaven,… |
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a forgotten relic of a vanished world." Of the mystical sunrise Twain wrote "It was the sublimest spectacle I ever witnessed, and I think the memory of it will remain with me always." |
