Mark Twain hadn't been there. Japan made some land for airports, no Twain there either.
Ya'd think he could at least have gone to Hawai'i, land is being made there as we speak. Not that mushy Dutch or Japanese mud either. Good solid 'Merican ROCK.
If you read "Roughing it" you would find that he did go to Hawaii, back when it was the Sandwich Islands.
He was impressed with the hula, and that was when the ladies did it in unison, and NAKED.