The Hawaiian chapters of Roughing It provide some excellent examples of Twain writing for different audiences because he first wrote much of the material for publication in predominantly male California and revised it for national book publication shortly after his marriage. Here is one useful example: >From Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii: At noon I observed a bevy of nude native young ladies bathing in the sea, and went down to look at them. But with a prudery which seems to be characteristic of that sex everywhere, they all plunged in with a lying scream, and when they rose to the surface they only just poked their heads out and showed no disposition to proceed any further in the same direction. I was naturally irritated by such conduct, and therefore I piled their clothes up on a boulder in the edge of the sea and sat down on them and kept the wenches in the water until they were pretty well used up. I had them in the door, as the missionaries say. I was comfortable, and I just let them beg. I thought I could freeze them out, maybe, but it was impracticable. I finally gave it up and went away, hoping that the rebuke I had given them would not be lost upon them. I went and undressed and went in myself. And then they went out. I never saw such singular perversity. Shortly a party of children of both sexes came floundering around me, and then I quit and left the Pacific ocean in their possession. The same incident in Roughing It: At noon I observed a bevy of nude native young ladies bathing in the sea, and went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen. I begged them to come out, for the sea was rising and I was satisfied that they were running some risk. But they were not afraid, and presently went on with their sport. They were finished swimmers and divers, and enjoyed themselves to the last degree. They swam races, splashed and ducked and tumbled each other about, and filled the air with their laughter. It is said that the first thing an Islander learns is how to swim; learning to walk being a matter of smaller consequence, comes afterward.... There are a few other examples of his revisions, with links to the online texts, in Mark Twain's Hawaii with and without Mr. Brown http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa090297.htm Mark Twain's Hawaii Revised http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa090997.htm The searchability of the online texts (Roughing It at the Library of Congress, and the original letters in Barbara Schmidt's collection of his early journalism) make comparisons between the texts relatively easy. Jim Zwick