104 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
Carifoona. The word Carzfoona was given me, 
both by the St. Vincent and Dominica Caribs, as the 
ancient name of the tribe; so there can be no doubt 
of the origin of the latter term. 
In this connection, the author of “Myths of the 
New World” has propounded a curious and by no 
means improbable theory: “The mythical ancestor 
of the Caribs created his offspring by sowing the soil 
with stones, or with the fruit of the Mauritius palm, 
which sprouted forth into men and women; while the 
Yurucares, much of whose mythology was perhaps 
borrowed from the Peruvians, clothed this crude tenet 
in a somewhat more poetic form, fabling that at the 
beginning the first men were pegged, Ariel-like, in 
the knotty entrails of an enormous bole, until the god 
Tiri —a' second Prospero — released them by cleaving 
it in twain... .. It is still a mooted point whence 
Shakespeare drew the plot of ‘The Tempest.’ The 
coincidence mentioned in the text between some parts 
of it and South American mythology does not stand 
alone. Caliban, the savage and brutish native of the 
island, is undoubtedly the word Carzd, often spelled 
Caribana and Calibanz in older writers, and his 
‘dam’s god, Setebos,’ was the supreme divinity of the 
Patagonians when first visited by Magellan.” 
As another curious fact, which inseparably links 
the Carib with our best fiction, as well as with our 
early history, let me mention that Robinson Crusoe’s 
“Man Friday” was a Carib; and the island of their 
adventures is not in the Pacific Ocean, but lies among 
the historic isles of the Caribbean Sea. It is, in fact, 
the island of Tobago, which I visited, and in which I 
had many and varied adventures. 
