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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: After publishing the poem, Mr. Longfellow discovered that he had erred in the accent to be laid on two or three Indian words. One was Opechee, the robin. In the first edition, he wrote " Sent the Opechee, the rohin," but finding that the accent was more correctly on the second syllable, he changed the line wherever it occurred to " Sent the robin, the Opeehee." In like manner, the first edition read " All the giants, the Wendigoes," but this was changed later to " All the Wendigoes, the giants." These correct1ons indicate the scrupulous care he gave to his work. He was led to believe that the true pronunciation of his hero's name was Hi-a'-watha, but the form Hiawa'tha had become so current and was so involved in the poem that it was out of the question to change that. The notes which appear in this edition are drawn partly from those supplied by the poet when he published the poem, partly from other sources. The Vocabulary is taken, with a slight revision, from that originally published by Mr. Longfellow in his notes to the poem. BOOKS RELATING TO THE INDIANS. SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY RoWE. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends of the North American Indians. Algic Researches. Indian Tales and Legends. Notes on the Iroquois. Onedta, or Characteristics of the Red Race of America. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers. The Indian Tribes of the United States. (This book was condensed and edited by Francis S. Drake from School- craft's other works.) 12 BOOKS RELATING TO THE INDIANS. Matthews, Cornelius. Hiawatha and Other Legends of the Wigwams of the Red American Indians. (This book is based upon the matter originally compiled by Schoolcraft.) Drake, Samuel G. The Book of...