“Map of The Trip made by Tom Sawyer Erronort.”

[Samuel L. Clemens]

“Map of The Trip made by Tom Sawyer Erronort.”

[N.p.]

[ca. 1893]

In Tom Sawyer Abroad, Huck explains the malapropism in the legend of this hand-drawn map: “[Tom] said an erronort was a person who sailed around in balloons; and said it was a mighty sight finer to be Tom Sawyer the Erronort than to be Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and we would be heard of all round the world, if we pulled through all right, and so he wouldn’t give shucks to be a traveler now.” 

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library