HAW-HO-NOO;
OR,
RECORDS OF A TOURIST.
BY
CHARLES LANMAN,
AUTHOR OF “LETTERS FROM THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS,” ETC.
And without registering these things by the pen,
they will slide away unprofitably.
Owen Feltham.
PHILADELPHIA:
LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO AND CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
GRIGG, ELLIOT AND CO.,
14 NORTH FOURTH STREET.
1850.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by
LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO AND CO.,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.
TO
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, ESQ.,
IN WHOM ARE BLENDED
ALL THE MORE EXALTED ATTRIBUTES OF
THE POET AND THE MAN,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY
THE AUTHOR.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The title and table of contents of this volume contain all that I haveto say in regard to its character. My only apology for again appearingbefore the public is to be found in the treatment which I haveheretofore experienced from the critics. With one exception, themore prominent periodicals of England and the United States havespoken of my former productions in the most kindly manner, and Isincerely thank them for their friendship. With regard to the exceptionalluded to—the “North American Review”—I have only tosay that its assault upon me was cruel, prompted by an unworthymotive, and wholly undeserved. I write from impulse and for thepleasure which the employment affords. That my books are popularis indeed a matter of rejoicing; but I make no pretensions whatsoeverin the literary line, and only desire the approbation of those who arewilling to believe me a lover of truth, of nature, and my friends.
The word Haw-ho-noo was originally applied to America by theIroquois Indians, and signifies the country upheld on the back of a turtle;and my reasons for employing it on the present occasion are simplythese—a portion of the volume is devoted to the traditionary lore ofthe Aborigines, and the whole has reference to my native land.
C. L.
Washington, Summer of 1850.