J. A. Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 173 
After five years more there remained but one third of this num- 
ber, and in 1533 they amounted to only four thousand.” Subse- 
quently asmall part of this remnant escaped destruction. “A 
young Cacique, placing himself at the head of the few that re- 
mained, made a resolute resistance to their conquerors. Driven 
at length to extremities, he retired to the fastnesses of inacces- 
sible mountains, from which he continually sallied forth and har- 
rassed the Spanish inhabitants, who in the end, struck with the 
heroism and the moderation he showed in the use he made of 
the advantages of his position, suffered him and his adherents 
to leave their retreats and reside unmolested in any part of the 
island. Their descendants continued to inhabit it fora length 
of time; but their numbers gradually diminished, and in 1716 
amounted to only one hundred souls.” * 
1€ population of Cuba shared the same fate, but the de- 
striction was not so entire. From information given me by in- 
telligent gentlemen from Havana, it appears that there are still at 
the present time some descendants of the ancient race near 
ag0, having the following villages: Holquin, Cobre, Vallamo, 
Puerto Principe, and Guanaja, whose aggregate population is 
two thousand. 
rom what region this ill-fated race, of so amiable, gentle, and 
ossigat a character, was derived, is an interesting inquiry. 
tom their greater proximity to North America than to the 
Southern continent, it might at first view be thought that they 
t ifferent from that of 
cane from Florida. But their character, so 
islands from the not very distant coast of Yucatan, _ = 
put Bryan Edwards advances another theory of their origin. 
The antipathy,” he remarks, “which the Caribees manifested 
? the unotfending natives of the larger islands appears extraor- 
dinary, but it is said to have descended to them from their ances- 
tors of Guiana They considered them (the Haytians) descendec 
from the Arrowacks of South America, with whom the Cari- 
be 
&s of that country are continually at war. 
Which I collected, on comparing them with the accounts pre- 
wards. 
Tascertained that the Arrowacks are spread along the whole 
lby’s History of America. * Jee and Civil History of America, 
T 
Ogi 
‘ History of the West Indies, Book 1, Ch. 8. 
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