The American novelist Mark Twain observed the swan and recorded his observation in a chapter of the Innocents Abroad, writing that the swan "had a living grace about his movement and a living intelligence in his eyes."
Den amerikanska författaren Mark Twain beskådade svanen och nedtecknade sin observation i ett kapitel i boken The Innocents Abroad (1869), där han beskriver att svanen "had a living grace about his movement and a living intelligence in his eyes."