May 21 Monday – Bermuda. In the morning Sam and Twichell hiked again; they took a carriage ride in the afternoon [D. Hoffman 45]. Sam’s notebook:

Was awakened at 6AM Monday by our ambitious young rooster—looked out saw him swelling around a yellow cat asleep on ground. Birds, a bugle & various noises. Then a piano over the way…

Bought white shoes & pipe-clay. Walked till hurt heel. After noonday dinner

Drove along shore—one horse & intelligent colored man. The sea-view always enchanting…

That fool [Twichell] with us sees “Onions Wanted” & innocently gets out to tell man plenty along the road.

Living is very cheap & there’s potatoes & onions for all. Nobody can starve. Plenty of schools—everybody can read [MTNJ 2: 21].

Sam noted the quarry blocks used for construction, cheap prices of houses, a myriad of flowers and plants, animals of all sorts out grazing, and everywhere white. The whitest and shabbiest town in the northeast would be shabby next to Bermuda, he wrote [MTNJ 2: 23-5].