INHABITANTS OF GUIANA. 



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the Caribs themselves claim to have descended from above through a hole in the 

 sky. 



But most American ethnologists look on the central regions of Brazil as the 

 most probable cradle of the Carib race, in which case the expression " true Caribs " 

 would be more applicable to the tribes dwelling in the interior of the Guianas than 

 to those now settled on the seaboard. The Galibi of French Guiana, who are 

 also of pure Carib stock, and who even bear this name under a somewhat 

 more euphonious form, have occupied the coast zone west of Cayenne for at least 



Fior. 12. — Galibi Woman. 



two centuries and a half. Here they had some twenty villages in 1652, and at 

 present some of their settlements are scattered along the Sinnamari and Iracubo 

 rivers, and especially along the right bank of the Maroni. 



Another Carib people, the Câlinas, remnant of a great and powerful nation, 

 have held their ground in the Surinam valley. To the same stock belong the 

 famous Roucouyennes of the interior, who are so named by the Creoles from the 

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