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is deemed to have gained the case in dispute, which is accordingly settled in favour 

 of the side which has proved most successful in this wrestling match. All the 

 Warrau women, says Richard Schomburgk, have a profoundly sad and indescrib- 

 ably soft physiognomy. 



The Cakihs. 



The Carib (Caraib) division has representatives in every part of the Guianas, 

 and some of the tribes even bear the general name of the whole family. One of 



Fig. 11.— Galibi Man. 



these groups is settled at Warramuri, west of the Moruka estuary, close to an 

 enormous shell mound and other kitchen refuse, attesting a long sojourn of several 

 centuries in the district. To these natives Everard im Thurn gives the distinctive 

 name of " true Caribs," on the assumption that they landed here on their arrival 

 from the West Indies, supposed by him to be the original home of the race. This 

 view is so far confirmed by certain legends bringing them from the north, while 



