g2 CAMPS IN. THE CARIBBEES. 
the hips with a twist of lialine, or forest vine, their 
hair contained in a simple kerchief, or, better, flowing 
in luxuriant tresses down their backs, as they appear 
when going to labor in the forest, they are in perfect 
character. 
This brings me,to speak of the appearance of the 
Caribs, of their form and color, which make them 
different from people of other nationalities. Through 
the changes of climate and residence, and the greater 
.changes wrought by intermarriage with other tribes 
and with the negroes, the true Carib type is likely 
soon to be lost. Jt is, however, lighter in complexion 
than that of the North American Indian, — so light, 
that, from their peculiar cast of golden-brown, they 
have acquired the name of 2é//ow Indians. From 
my photographs it will be seen that the type is more 
of the Mongol than of any other. A peculiar instance 
came under my observation in one hamlet, where a 
Chinaman — pure Mongolian—had married a yellow 
Carib. Their progeny, a numerous family of chil- 
dren, could not be distinguished from the Indian chil- 
dren around them. One beautiful feature about them 
is their hair, which is abundant, long, and purple- 
black; it is finer than that of our Indians, though not 
so fine as that of the Caucasian type.* 
Though early losing the grace and symmetry of 
form of childhood, through labor in the fields, ex- 
posure to the sun, and a natural tendency to corpu- 
* “That cacique that was a stranger had his wife staying at the 
port where we ankored, and in all my life I have seldom seenea 
better favored woman. She was of good stature, with blacke eies, 
fat of body, of an excellent countenance, her haire almost as long 
as hirselfe, tied up againe in pretie knots.” — Sir W. RALEIGH’S 
Discovery of Guiana. 
