Q2 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



the hips with a twist of lialine, or forest vine, their 

 hair contained in a simple kerchief, or, better, flowing 

 in luxuriant tresses down their backs, as they appear 

 when going to labor in the forest, they are in perfect 

 character. 



This brings me to speak of the appearance of the 

 Caribs, of their form and color, which make them 

 different from people of other nationalities. Through 

 the changes of climate and residence, and the greater 

 changes wrought by intermarriage with other tribes 

 and with the negroes, the true Carib type is likely 

 soon to be lost. It is, however, lighter in complexion 

 than that of the North American Indian, — so light, 

 that, from their peculiar cast of golden-brown, they 

 have acquired the name of Yellow Indians. From 

 my photographs it will be seen that the type is more 

 of the Mongol than of any other. A peculiar instance 

 came under my observation in one hamlet, where a 

 Chinaman — pure Mongolian — had married a yellow 

 Carib. Their progeny, a numerous family of chil- 

 dren, could not be distinguished from the Indian chil- 

 dren around them. One beautiful feature about them 

 is their hair, which is abundant, long, and purple- 

 black; it is finer than that of our Indians, though not 

 so fine as that of the Caucasian type.* 



Though early losing the grace and symmetry of 

 form of childhood, through labor in the fields, ex- 

 posure to the sun, and a natural tendency to corpu- 



* "That cacique that was a stranger had his wife staying at the 

 port where we ankored, and in all my life I have seldom seenc a 

 better favored woman. She was of good stature, with blacke eies, 

 fat of body, of an excellent countenance, her haire almost as long 

 as hirselfe, tied up againe in pretie knots." — Sir W. Raleigh's 

 Discovery of Guiana. 



