March 31 Monday – The Kanawha sailed from Santiago, Cuba, to Nassau, Bahamas.

Sam’s notebook: “Sailed at 8 a.m. on a 2-day stretch due north” [NB 45 TS 8]. Note: Sam’s ship log essentially the same notation.

James F. Strang of Invercargill, N. Zealand wrote to Sam asking him to “send over a message, anything, a few lines,” which he could read in response to a toast to Mark Twain at a meeting of the First Church Literary Society. Sam wrote on Strang’s letter “You send him a line,” and sent it to H.H. Rogers, who, on May 5, sent Strang a humorous reply as “P. Huttleston” [MTHHR 486n1]. Note: see May 5 entry.