In May 1889, the Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson docked his boat on the shores of this happy community, where the Sisters helped the sick to thrive during their remaining days. Stevenson, who had suffered since childhood with tuberculosis, had embarked with his wife and her son aboard the chartered yacht Casco on a cruise of the South Seas islands, in search of a favorable climate in which he could work without coughing. The sea air did, in fact, improve his health; and it was while there that Stevenson made a side trip to the island of Molokai, to meet Sister Marianne and to see firsthand the leper community there.

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