West Indies 1902 DBD

March 29 Saturday – On board the Kanawha in Boden, Jamaica, Sam wrote to Livy [MTP].

March 30 Sunday – The Kanawha made the port of Santiago in southern Cuba, where the men “visited the points of historical interest near Santiago” [NY Times Apr. 1, 1902, p.9 “The Kanawha at Santiago”].

Sam’s notebook: “Easter / Sailed early for Santiago. Rough. Arr. 3 p.m. at the Morro Castle. Prado. Queen’s …. [Square] Well kept cats & dogs. No smoking” [NB 45 TS 8].

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.

Sam took a cruise of "The West Indies" aboard Henry Rogers' yacht, the Kanawha. The party consisted of Laurence Hutton, H.H. Rogers, Clemens, Clarence C. Rice, Colonel Augustus G. Paine, Thomas B. Reed, and Wallace Turner Foote, Jr.. Sam kept a log of the cruise to points south, the MS of which is at the Mark Twain Project, called “Winter-end Excursion to the Sutherd.”

“Thursday, March 13. Moved down by rail. Remembered with fruit from Mrs. Broughton, & violets from Mrs. Harry Rogers, jr.”