Does the name Mannahatta smell less sweet in barbaric yawp?

Later, “we” will go back to retrace the tracks of the aboriginals after the first two or three lines of Mannahatta, to measure the extent to which the aboriginals, though never again mentioned, persist or are “preserved” in the remaining thirty lines of the poem.

For now, we will examine how

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

In Mannahatta!

And,

And,

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