180- J. A. Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayti. 
pa the language of the people, he says, resembled that of 
Cuba.” 
But it may be said that, allowing that the reasons which have 
been offered to show the Arrowacks and Haytians to be the same 
nation are sufficient to establish their identity, it does not necessa- 
rily follow that the latter are derived from the former. May 
not the Haytians have sent colonies to the coast of Guiana from 
whom the Arrowacks are derived, instead of themselves descend- 
ing from the Arrowacks? To this we reply, in the first place, 
that the Arrowacks appear to be the original proprietors of that 
coast. Its rivers, Essequibo, Berbice, Demerara, have Arrowack 
names. Essequibo signifies a deer; Berbice is from Guarapu 
che, the Arrowack name of this river. There is a river of the 
same 
name Demerara 
Orinoco, is also an Arrowack word, signifying arrow. Orinoco 
is probably also Arrowack. Water in Arrowack is Woonie. In 
Trinidad, according to Sir Robert Duddely, it is Orononve, whieh 
name may have been given to this river as “the water” em- 
phatically, from the vast flood which it pours out. 
Next, we observe that the principal plants cultivated by the 
Haytians belong to South America, of which may be mentioned,. 
in particular, cassava or manive, and their manner of preparing 
it for food is the same as that of the Arrowacks, which has 
described. ‘The Haytians,” says Martyr, “ never eat jucea, bY 
which name this plant is sometimes called by them, except it }$ 
first sliced and pressed, and then baked or sodden; for it is full 
of liquor which is a strong poison, that causes instant death if 
drunk, but the bread made of the mass is of good taste and 
wholesome.” “When Columbus,” says Herrera, “landed at 
Hayti, he was invited by the Cacique to go and eat axi and cas 
sabi, which is their chief diet.”” Hachi, it has been shown, is the 
Arrowack word for pepper, and the repast offered to Columbus 
was doubtless the hachi-duada or pepper-pot of the Arrowacks, 
with which cassava was always eaten. There was another cus 
‘tom of the Haytians which was evidently derived from South 
America. Their mode of sleeping was in hammocks, which 38 
the general custom in that continent, but not at all found among 
the northern Indians, and the word hamaka, it has been seé 
* Martyr, Decade IV, Book I, Ch, 3 and 4. * Herrera, Decade I, Book 1. 
* Herrera, Dec I, Book I, Ch. 18, 
