<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">So the Bible said, but American missionaries found Hawaii a paradise where pleasure reigned, and the sense of sin was difficult to teach</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Connecticut-born John Ledyard became the first American to see Alaska and Hawaii. Years before Lewis and Clark, he planned to cross the North American continent—from west to east</span> </p>
