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Vol. IV. —No. 110.] Saturday, December 6. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Tlie Aborigines of St. Domingo, by Henry H. Breen - 

 Mitigation of Capital Panislinient to a Forger, by 

 Alfred Gatty ...--- 



Fassaae in Jeremy Taylor - - - - - 



Parallel Passages! by Harry Leroy Temple 

 Folk Lore : — Death Omen by Bees - - - 



The Caxton Coffer ....-- 

 Minor Notes; —Mental Almanac — Corruptions recog- 

 nised as acknowledgeil Words — Pasquinade — Epigram 

 on Erasiuus— Etymology of London — Verses on 

 Sliipraoney— Culumbiis's Bust, Xc. at Ilavanna 



Pago 

 433 



. 434 



. 435 



. 43.5 



. 436 



. 436 



- 436 



Queries : — 



Additional Qneries respecting General James Wolfe - 438 

 Christianity, when first introduced into Orkney - 439 



The Roman Index Expurgatoriiis of 1607 - - 440 



Minor Queries: — "The Don," a Poem — John Lord 

 FrescheviUe— Meaning of" Pallaiit " — Rectitudines 

 Singularum Persouarum — Sir Henry 'I'ichborne's 

 Journal — Koond Towers at Hhangulpore — Johannes 

 Trithpmius — Races in which ChiUlren are named alter 

 the Mothers — Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, En- 

 voys, and Residents from Foreign Courts — Critolaus 

 and the Horatii and Curiatii— Cabal— " Thus said the 

 Ravens black"— Svmb lis in Painting— Latin Verse 

 on Franklin —General .Moyle — Music.d Compositions 

 of Matthew Dubourg — Collodion, and its Application 

 to Pliotugraphy — Engraved Portrait — Lines tiy Lord 

 Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to 

 forgive her Son when on her Death-bed - - 441 



Minor Qi'Eries Answered : — Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry 



— Uiciionarv of Musicians — City of London Charter 



— St. Alkald - . - - - - 444 



Replies : — 



Plaids and Tartans ------ 



Religious Statistics ------ 



Royal Library ------ 



Damasked Linen ------ 



Vermin, Payments for Destruction of - 



Was Raleigii in Virginia ? - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Bunting's Irish Melodies 



— Colonies in England — " History of .Anglesey," Sc. 



— Tlie Lowey of Tunbridge — Praed's Works — John 

 a Cumber — Punishment of Prince Kilward of Car- 

 narvon — Jocelme's Legacy — Bi istol Tables- Griins- 

 dyke or Grimesditch — Derivation of " .T2ra " — Scent 

 of tlie Bloodhound ^ Monk and Cromwell Families 



— " Truth is that which a man trowetli " — " Worse 

 than a Crime" — Verses in Classical Prose — Cruelty 

 of the Spaniards in Peru — Nolo Ejiiscopari — Hon. 

 gouraont — Call a Spade, a Spade — " Tacc is L:iiin 



for a Candle " — Collars of SS Locusts of the New 



Testament — Theodolite — " A Posie of other Men's 

 Flowers" — Voltaire — Sinaiiic Inscrintions — Le 

 Greene at Wrexham — Cross-legged lOlIigics — The 



Word 'AJt>.;« — Finger PiUorie Rlacklnana Ile- 



resis — Quaker Expurgated Uible — " Acu tiiiali 

 merida" ------ 



Miscellaneous : — 



Note« on Books, Sales. Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspoiulenls 

 Advertisements ... 



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 44.5 

 446 

 446 

 447 

 448 



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THE ABORIGINES OF ST. DOMINGO. 



Perhaps you will kindly permit me to Lave 

 recourse to " Notes and Queries " for the pur- 

 pose of pointing out one or two errors in a letter 

 from Sir II. Schomburgk, which was read at the 

 nieetin<,T of the British Association on the 3rd July- 

 last, section of Geography and Ethnology. This 

 communication, entitled " Ethnological Researches 

 in Santo Domingo," and addressed to His Royal 

 Highness Prince Albert, contains the following 

 statement : I quote from the Athenccum of the 5th 

 July : — 



" The extirpation of the pure Indian race prevented 

 me from makinjr comparative inquiries bet%veen the 

 still existing tribes of Guiana, and those that once 

 inhabited St. Domingo, My re.'searches were therefore 

 restricted to what history and the fe%v and poor monii- 

 ments have transmitted to us of their customs and 

 manners. Their langtiage lives only in the names of 

 places, rivers, trees, and friuts ; but all combine in 

 declaring that the people wlio bestowed these names 

 were identical with the Carib and Arawaak tribes of 

 Guiana." 



The last sentence in this passage is obviously 

 erroneous. That the aboriginal inhabitnnts of the 

 great Antilles (Santo Domingo, Cuba, Porto-Rico, 

 and Jamaica,) were identical with, or descended 

 from, the Arawaaks of Guiana, is an opinion 

 which has long prevailed, and which the circum- 

 stances stated by Sir R. Schomburgk tend to con- 

 firm. Indeed, they are described by most writers 

 as Indians or Arawaaks. But that there was any 

 identity between the Indians and the tribes known 

 by the name of Caribs, is an assertion totally at 

 variance with the established facts. In sujiport, 

 however, of this assertion. Sir R. Schomburgk 

 appeals to "history;" but what history, he does 

 not state. I have perused, and still possess, almost 

 every work that was ever written on the history 

 of these islands ; and they all lead to the conclu- 

 sion, that tiie Indians of Santo Domingo (also 

 called IIis])aiiiola and Haiti) were a totally dis- 

 tinct race from the Caribs. The Indians were a 

 mild, inollensive people ; the Caribs a race of 

 savages, some say, cannibals. The former were 

 indolent and eireminato ; the latter fierce and 



Vol.. IV.— Xo. 110. 



