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each front foot, a feature that has alread}' been noted in considerino- 

 some of the wooden idols. 



Plate xciii, h, represents another duho from Santo Domhig-o, now 

 owned by SeiTor Imbert of Puerto Plata. This stool, like the one- 

 next preceding, has a large head, which, is situated, however, on the 

 lower end between the fore legs; its back is lower, the curve being an 

 arc of a greater circle. The surface of the upper end of the back has 

 no decoration, but on the side, at the point a, there is a spiral geo- 

 metrical ornament that is enlarged in h' . The resemblance of this 

 object to an animal with a human head is j)ronounced; its likeness to 

 a seat more distant. 



Another specimen of dtihn {<_■) from Turks (Caicos) island, is thus 

 referred to by Professor Mason: 



Professor William JI. Gabb has sent to the National Musenin, with the joint com- 

 pliments of himself and Jlr I). R. Frith, of Turk's and Caicos islands, two wooden 

 stools, facsimiles of those spoken of by Herrera. . . . These objects are made of 

 a very hard dark wood, and are just fitted to an ordinary man when reclining as 

 in a hammock, from which the pattern of a stool is possit)ly derived. These two 

 specimens were found in a cave. 



Representations of tins stool, taken from Professor Mason's report, 

 are to l)e found in '/. They show tliat these specimens are very sim- 

 ilar to those found in Santo Domingo and have like superlicial orna- 

 mentation. 



Professor Mason, in his catalogue of the Guesde collection, thus 

 describes still another wooden duho, the third which he figures: 



A low wooden stool from Turk's island, collected by the late W. ^M. (iabli. This 

 form is similar to those described in a previous publication, and referred to by the 

 historians of Columbus. The ornamentation of the countenance of the human head 

 are [is] best shown in figure 201'" [Mason]. The laliyrinthine design of the seat 

 ornament, the scrolls, lozenges, and chevrons in the head ornaments are most praise- 

 worthy. Length, 46 inches. 



The prehistoric West Indians were es,sentially a maritime people, and 

 the insular Carib at the time of Columbus navigated from island to 

 island with the greatest ease, using canoes which carried many men. 

 So extensive were their voyages that there wa.s probablj' not an 

 island in the whole West Indies which they did not visit. 



The sea voyages extended over 24 degrees of longitude, from Cape 

 San Antonio, the extreme western end of Cuba, to South America. 

 Martinique, which wa.s a Carib island, is situated almost as far from the 

 Florida Keys as Key West from Eastjiort, Maine, and the distance 

 from Guanahani, the landfall of Columbus, to the lesser Carib islands 

 by sea, following the West Indies, is greater than the lengtli of the 



