J. A, Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 175 
whom they could trust.” And again: “The Indians of Moruga 
(ariver near the Orinoco) sought by all the means in their power 
to unite all nations into an alliance to invade the Arwacees for 
being guides to the Spaniards, in showing them their towns and 
betraying them.”” ‘lo the friendship thus early shown to the 
Spaniards they ever remained constant. Gumilla, in his History 
of the Orinoco, written a century and a half after, observes: 
‘They are much more attached and more faithful to the Spaniards 
than any of the nations who have been discovered on this river 
or in the neighboring regions, for as soon as they are informed of 
°F aia intended against them, they secretly inform them of 
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this day as intense as ever. It is the height of offense to an 
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