174 J. A, Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 
the neck. silver ornament is sometimes worn at the ears, 
and a longitudinal piece of wood is inserted in an incision made 
below the under lip. They_rely for subsistence on hunting and 
language, hachi-duada, signifying pepper-pot—from hachi, peppe 
ot. ‘The cassava cakes are eaten with it. 
Their cabins are of a square form, of greater length than 
breadth, constructed of four stakes planted in the ground, opel 
on all sides, with an angular roof, which is covered with leaves 
of troobes, a species of palm. In them are suspended their ham- 
mocks for sleeping, in which also they sit or recline during 
the day. They are a net-work made of the fibres of the pul4, 
another species of palm. In the middle of the cabin a fire }8 
continually kept, to repel by its smoke the approach of mosqur 
toes, which abound in their torrid clime. ; 
_ In support of the oe of Bryan Edwards, the following 
proofs may be adduced: 
1. The Arrowacks bear a great resemblanee in their charac 
ter to the Haytians. They are, like them, mild, gentle, and be- 
nevolent. As such they have uniformly exhibited themselves © 
the Europeans with whom they have had intercourse. en 
the Spaniards, in their first expeditions to the Orinoco, 
cited against them the general hostility of the Indians, the AP 
rowacks alone were friendly to them. Lawrence Keymes, W “ 
commanded the second expedition made by Sir Walter Raleig 
to this river, in 1596, remarks: “The Caribes, the Ciawanls, 
Titivivas, and all other nations, far and near, were ready to jon, 
against them, except the Arawacas, who were the only nation ” 
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