INDIAN HOME LIFE. 



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Jhe ^acrificial ^tone. 



inhabitants of Cuba and Haiti at the time of their dis- 

 covery. They confined their efforts to the production 

 of axes for hollowing out their canoes, and the manu- 

 facture of implements of war. They made pottery, 

 but I doubt if the cotton found in their huts by Colum- 

 bus was of their own weaving. It is more probable 

 that it was taken from the Arowaks of the greater 

 islands. 



In the forests there are yet more striking evi- 

 dences of aboriginal occupation, which would tell us 

 that there once existed here a people different from 

 those of the present day, were there no written or tra- 

 ditional chronicles of their existence. In a valley of 

 the Caribbean side of St. Vincent is a large rock cov- 



