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iiatiinilly drive the Indians to war, hut tlie darkest part of the whole 

 stoiy is that we have only the Spanish record to indicate the purpose 

 of Aymamon in tying the boy to the post. Who shall prove that the 

 cacique had any such design as the chronicler states? 



Notwithstanding the slaughter of his subjects, Aymamon sought to 

 make friendship with the settlers at Sotomaj'or, especialij' Salazar, 

 and sent Indians to ask him to come to the cacique's ranch near 

 Sotomayor, on the Cule))riiias river. He stated that he wished to 

 become a blood brother of the Spaniard and to change names with 

 Salazar, V)elieving that he could thereby ol)tain his friendship, possibly 

 his magic. After Aymamon had taken the name great power was 

 imputed to liim. and for years the name Salazar was a terror among 

 the Indians. 



The northeastern part of the island formed a caciquedom called 

 Loisa, from an Indian chieftainess who received this European name 

 when she was converted to Christianity, shortly after the settlement of 

 Caparra. She was killed bj' Carib from Vieques in a raid which they 

 made into her territories under a chief named Guarabo, to avenge the 

 death of his brother, Carimar, who had been killed liy the Spaniards. 



The province of Yagueca, a name now perpetuated in the name 

 Mayaguez. was the territory of the chief Ura^'oan. It apparently 

 inchided all the middle part of the we.stern end of Porto Rico, from 

 the Urayoan mountains to the sea on the east. The cacique Urayoan, 

 called also Broyuan, is said to have adopted drastic measures to dis- 

 prove the report circulated among the Indians that the Europeans 

 were immortal. Having entertained a Spaniard named Salcedor, he 

 afterward caused him to be carried to the river and drowned. The 

 Spaniard not coming to life, the cacique summoned Indians to survej' 

 the corpse and see that the Spaniard was mortal like themselves. 



The caciquedom of Giiarionex lay in the mountains east of those of 

 Aymamon and Uraj'oan, and west of the .site of the present town 

 Utuado, which was in his domain. Little seems to be recorded of this 

 cacique except that he was of Carib extraction and that he marshaled 

 3,000 warriors and destroyed the pueblo of Sotoma3'or. The moun- 

 tains west of Utuado are named Guarionex mountains on the older 

 maps, probably from the former cacique of this region. The province 

 over which he ruled was apparently known as Utuao, a name which 

 survives in that of the present settlement Utuado. 



There was also a cacique named Guarionex in Haiti, whose name is 

 frequently mentioned in the early history of that island, but whether 

 the Porto Kican Guai'ionex is the same as the Haitian is not known. 

 This similarity in names of Haitian and Porto Rican caciques occurs 

 frequently. Some caciques, as Caonabo, of Managua, are distinctly 

 stated to have been of Carib descent. These facts show that in many 

 instances Carib leaders became rulers over portions of tiie islands 



