The excursion program specified a stop of a “day or two” at St. Michael (São Miguel), the largest of the Azores, which was somewhat farther east than Fayal (Charles C. Duncan 1867 [bib10640]). But, as Clemens explained in his first letter to the New York Tribune,

We had to change our notions about San Miguel, for a storm came up, toward noon, that so pitched and tossed the vessel that common sense dictated a run for shelter. Therefore we steered for the nearest island of the group—Fayal (the people there pronounce it Fyall, and put the accent on the first syllable.) We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore. (SLC 1867 [MT00548])

SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens and Family, 21 and 29 June; 1, 3, and 5 July 1867, Azores, Portugal (UCCL 00139), n. 1.