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CHAPTER VI. 
AMONG THE CARIBS. 
THEIR PEACEFUL LIFE.— FRUITS AND FOOD. — THE SECOND VOY- 
AGE OF COLUMBUS. — DISCOVERY OF THE CARIBS. — FIERCE 
NATURE AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE “CANNIBAL PAGANS.” — 
UNLIKE THE NATIVES OF THE GREATER ANTILLES, — THE 
CARIB RESERVATION IN DOMINICA.— MY CAMP IN CARIB 
COUNTRY. — TWO SOVEREIGNS. — THE VILLAGE. — THE HOUSES. 
— CATCHING A COOK.— A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION. — LIGHT- 
ING A ROOM WITH FIRE-FLIES. — “LOOK ZE COOK.” — LABOR. 
— DOMESTIC RELATIONS. — A DRUNKEN INDIAN. — WILD MEN 
AND NAKED CHILDREN. —CARIB PANNIERS. -—- THE ONLY ART 
PRESERVED FROM THEIR ANCESTORS. 
N two of the smaller islands of the Caribbean Sea 
lives a vestige of a once powerful people. A 
people with a history; an unwritten and forgotten 
history, running back unnumbered ages, farther than 
we can trace it; but beginning to be known to civil- 
ized man when the existence of America was first be- 
coming evident to his awakened senses. 
Peaceful and gentle, singularly mild and affectionate, 
they dwell happily in their rude houses of thatch, draw- 
ing their sustenance from mother earth with occasional 
forays upon the sea. 
Bananas, plantains, yams, and tanniers are the 
crops they cultivate, and altogether rely upon. The 
bread-fruit grows about their cabins, and the mango 
