CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER VII. 



SOCIAL LIFE, APPEARANCE, AND LANGUAGE OF THE 

 CARIBS. 



Happy Children. — Cleanliness. — Primitive Innocence. — A 

 Modest Maiden. — Dress. — Face and Figure. — Flattening 

 the Forehead. — Uglv Men and Women. — Carib. Hospital- 

 ity. — The Basket- Weaver. —Tropic Noontide. — Religion. 



— The Dying Woman. — A Lost Skeleton. — Burial of the 

 Dead. —The Wake. — St. Vincent Caribs. — Two Dialects. 



— The Arowaks. — An Agreeable Tongue. — Vocabulary. 



— Caliban a Carib, and Crusoe's Man Friday. — Cru- 

 soe's Island. — Black Caribs. — Weapons and Utensils of 

 Stone. — " Thunderbolts." — Carib Sculpture. — A Sacri- 

 ficial Stone. — Whence came They ? — Their Northern 

 Limit. — A Southern Origin. — Their Lost Arts. —A Dying 

 People 9° 



CHAPTER VIII. 



HOW I CAPTURED THE IMPERIAL PARROT. 



Meyong. — My Hut. — A Mixed-up Language. — Departure 

 for the Forest. — Pannier and Cutlass. — Wood-Pigeons. — 

 The Startled Savages. —The Bath. — A Gloomy Gorge.— 

 "Palmiste Montagne."— In the Haunts of the Parrot. — 

 Immense Trees. — Parasites and Lianes. — Wood for Canoes 

 and Gum for Incense. — The " Bois Diable." — Construct- 

 ing the Camp. — Palm-Spathes. — A Bonne Bouche, the 

 Beetle Grub. — Nocturnal Noises. — Comical Frogs. — A 

 Blacksmith in a Tree.— The First Shot. — The Humming- 

 Bird's Nest. — The Parrot. — An Excited Guide. —An Acci- 

 dent.— Wild Hogs. — The "Little Devil." 112 



CHAPTER IX. 

 A DAY IN THE DEEP WOODS. 



The Bee-Tree. — Enveloped in Plants. — Ascending the Giant 

 Tree. — Smoking Out the Bees. —Vegetable Ropes. — Honey 

 ad libitum. — A Bite. — A Howl. —The Bee-Eaters. — Carib 



