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. Ugly 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 go 



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- 

 dentWild 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 



