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The absence of any traces of carvings in other caves whose situation was better 
adapted for the preservation of markings, had such ever existed, and the proof that 
their contents afforded that most of those caves had been known to the Lucayans 
and used by them as burying places or otherwise, and the close proximity of Hart- 
ford cave to the sea, taken in connection with the great number of markings on its 
walls, led me to think that possibly this cave had been the resort of the marauding 
tribes whom the Lucayans gave Columbus to understand were their enemies, and 
who were in the habit of making war upon them; and if so, the Caribs, or whatever 
tribe it may have been, had left these rock markings as mementos of their various 
expeditions and guides to succeeding ones. 
The above-mentioned petroglyphs bear a remarkable similarity to 
those in British Guiana figured and described below, and the author- 
ship would seem to relate to the same group of natives, the Caribs. 
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FIG. 102. Petroglyphs in the Bahamas. 
GUADELOUPE. 
In the Guesde collection of antiquities, described in the Smithsonian 
report for 1884, p. 834, Fig. 208, here reproduced as Fig. 103, is an in- 
scribed slab found in Guadeloupe. It weighs several tons and it is im- 
possible to remove it. In the vicinity are to be seen many other rocks 
bearing inscriptions, but this is the most elaborate of the group. 
The inscriptions may be compared with those from Guiana presented 
in this work. 
ARUBA. 
Pinart (b) gives the following account, translated and condensed: 
The island of Aruba forms one of the group of the islands of Curagao, on the north 
coast of Venezuela. This group consists of three principal islands, Curagao, Buen 
Ayre, Aruba, and some isolated rocks. It belongs to Holland. 
Aruba is the most western island of the group and is situated opposite the penin- 
sula of Paraguana,on the mainland. The distance between the two is about 10 
leagues, and from the island the shores of the continent can be seen very distinctly. 
These islands, at the time of the discovery by the Spaniards, were inhabited by an 
Indian race which has left numerous traces of its occupancy; pottery, stone objects, 
petroglyphs, etc., are met with in large numbers in Oruba and in a less quantity on 
Buen Ayreand Curagao. ~*~ * * These petroglyphs are quite different in character 
from those which I have recently described in a brief study of the Greater and Lesser 
Antilles, and their appearance brings to mind those found in Orinoco, in Venezuela, 
in the peninsula of Paraguana, on the border of the Magdalena river, and as far as 
Chiriqui. They differ from these, however, in several respects, and especially in 
that they are almost always multi-colored. The colors usually employed are red, 
