ALL ABOUT CRUSOE'S *^MAN FRIDAY." 145 



longing to the same race of red men, but of a differ- 

 ent family. They were brave and warlike, and gave 

 the Spaniards such a warm reception that they left 

 them alone for many years after, and in revenge 

 called them man-eaters. Thus the word cannihal^ 

 which is derived from Oarib, the name of the tribe, 

 gained its present meaning. From the same name 

 the great Shakespeare derived that of his savage hero 

 " Caliban," who appears in The Tempest, and who 

 was distantly related to " Friday." "^ 



Five years after this voyage Columbus sailed still 

 farther to the south, discovering the great island 

 of Trinidad, opposite one of the mouths of the 

 Orinoco, and without doubt sighting the island of 

 Tobago. 



Not quite a hundred years later Trinidad was 

 visited by the English admiral, Sir Walter Ealeigh, 

 who took the island from the Spaniards and made a 

 famous expedition up the Orinoco in search of myth- 

 ical El Dorado, with its golden palace and its king 

 almost smothered with gold dust. So, you see, this 

 region was very well known, when Crusoe came sail- 

 ing into it, about 1659 ; and all its inhabitants had 

 been accurately described when the famous book was 

 written, sixty years afterward. 



Now, Man Friday was clearly a Carib. Instead 



* Raleigh and Shakespeare were so exactly contemporaneous, 

 the span of the latter's life being included within that of the 

 former, that it is more than probable the great bard drew upon 

 the great admiral for material, while the novelist Defoe garnered 

 stores of information from both. 



