J. A. Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 179 
islands, some inhabited, others not, which they called by-their 
names; and that there was a continent which was very great, 
rom which canoes had come to traffic.* While at Hayti, the 
Indians said to him that there was another large island, called 
Yamaje (Jamaica), and that Hayti and Yamaje were but ten 
days’ sail from Terra Firma, from which canoes had come with 
abundance of loads to barter.” 
n the other hand, there is evidence that the Arrowacks were 
accustomed to make voyages to the West India Islands. Sir 
Walter Raleigh says that, in going up the Orinoco, “ we took two 
canoes laden with bread bound for Maigueritta in the West In- 
dies, which the Arrowacks in them proposed to carry thither to 
exchange ;”’ and he speaks of a town on this river “where there 
Was a continual market of women for three or four hatchets, and 
they are bought by the Arawacas, and by them sold in the 
West Indies.”* In a journal kept by a resident of British Guiana, 
of which I had a perusal, I found an interesting passage relating 
to this subject. He was by name James Glen, and in 181 
took up a residence for some time in the Indian country at the 
ead of the river Hssequibo. He appears to have had the ad- 
vantages of education and a scientific taste, from several notices 
in his journal of the Indian nations and the natural history of 
the interior of Guiana. Some of his remarks I transeri d, 
‘mong them the following: ‘Previous to the year 1500, the 
"rowacks were accustomed to go from the rivers of Guiana to 
the large islands”—which could be no other than Hayti and 
Cuba. “The year mentioned was eight years after the discovery 
of Hayti by Columbus, and the settlement of the Spaniards in 
ag rtich probably caused the intercourse of the Arrowacks to 
ase, : 
While, however, the general population of Hayti, Cuba, and 
the Bahamas is shown with the greatest probability to have 
cone from South America, it is not maintained that some of the 
Inhabitants of Hayti and Cuba may not have been derived from 
Sher parts. In Hayti was a tribe called Ziguayos, different in 
Tegard to Cuba, two positive facts are stated by Martyr, which 
give reason to believe that there had been an emigration to it 
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re) 
Yucatan where Grijalva first landed, he made use of Indians of 
5 ? . 
Cuba as interpreters, and at Coluacan, to which he afterw 
» Herrera, Dec. I, Book I, Ch. 12. * Navarette, ii, p. 260. 
Cayley’s Life of Raleigh, i, pp. 223, 249. 
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