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mainland Caribs have well developed beards, and many of the Arowaks 

 have (juke luxuriant moustaches." 



The island therefore may have been inhabited by bearded Indiana : 

 and it is worthy of note that the trees that grow on the shores of 

 Barbados are not " fig trees : " they are manchineel, white wood and 

 cocoanut-palms. The Barbados fig-trees, as a rule, grow in " gullies '" 

 and ravines. The only ■' Bearded Fig tree " I have seen growing on the 

 beach is one growing in a rock at Sinckler's Bay in the parish of St. Lucy. 

 Why should the Portuguese have gone out of their way to name the 

 island from a fig tree in the interior ? It is purely legendary and it has, 

 perhaps, as much truth in it as the statement, that the Portuguese left 

 " hogs " for breeding purposes on the island, whereas, as 

 Schomburgk points out, these " hogs " were indigenous, (the Peccary or 

 Dicoteles labiatv.s and D. torqiuttus common to the larger islands.) 



In a paper read by the Rev William Griffith, M.A., Fellow of St. 

 Julius College, Cambridge, before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 

 1873, Mr. Griffith writes :— 



,: In default of stone for their implements the Native Chariba in 

 Barb dos were driven to the next best material shell. This was usually 

 the central spire, or the spreading undulating lip of the Queen Conch, 

 either in its natural or fossilised state. They (the Indian implements) 

 are found specially in the neighbourhood of the Springs which are met 

 with at intervals. These afford the only fresh water in the Island and 

 would naturally be the sites for Charib Villages." 



And he adds that when he was at Codrington College, Barbados, 

 whilst a thick stratum of mud was being removed from the College 

 Springs very many of these Indian shell instruments were found. Ho 

 writes of the Native Caribs, it will be noted. 



Many collections have been made of these Indian implements and 

 utenfcils from time to time. Mr. E. K. Taylor, late Queen's Solicitor, had 

 a large collection of them : Mr. J. L. K. Pedder of. " I ley woods, " St. 

 Peter (at which plantation there is a large swamp) has a fine collection, 

 and so has Dr. John Hut-on, Public Health Inspector. 



As regards the few Indian implements in my possession (of which 

 Mr. Walter Parkinson at the Bridgetown Club has kindly taken photo- 

 graphs of sonic) they were chietly collected at " Gibbes " and " Carlton " 

 plantations (St Peter's and St. James) where Springs are located. One 

 of the email " heads " was found at "Indian Mount," St. Lucy, and the 

 largest was found at " Indian Biver " by Mr. E. K. Taylor.* I have a 

 small '-head " found at " Indian Mount " St. Lucy, which resembles the 

 one given in an engraving in Bughes, " Natural History of Barbados" 



I'.ivi-r states thai thu river obtained it- name from the I ndian iplmementa and 

 found i here, 



