8 J. A. Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 
From Trinidad, the Arrowacks could readily pass through the 
smaller islands to the larger ones, Hayti, Cuba, and Porto Rico. 
After reaching St. Vincent's, all the rest of the Caribee Islands 
are but a short distance from each other. 
way ofraillery, wuich had this origin, The Caribees of Domin- 
ica say that these islands were once inhabited by Arrowacks, 
and that they conquered them, and, killing all the men,,reserved 
the females for wives, who retained their language, which resem- 
bles that of the Arrowacks of Terra Firma; and it is to be note 
that, among the Caribees of the continent, the males and females 
speak: the same language.” Labat™ observes, “the Caribees of 
the islands have three Janguages; one common to all, another 
peculiar to the warriors and elder men, which is used in their 
public assemblies, and a third spoken only by the females, and 
wholly different trom that of the men, who consider themselves 
dishonored by speaking it;” from which he concludes that with 
out doubt the Caribees are strangers in these islands, having 
conquered them, killing all the males and reserving the females. 
The language of the females,” he says, “ was easier pronounced 
iJ 
. ™ Histoire des Antilles, Book I, Ch.40. — Voyages aux Isles de l'Amérique- 
® Martyr, Dec. I, Book I * Herrera, Dec. I, Book J, Ch. 15- 
