106 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
Caribs received them as friends, but eventually the 
negroes possessed themselves of the best lands and 
drove their benefactors to the most worthless. Having 
intermarried with the Yellow Caribs, they departed 
from the negro type,in a few years, but sufficiently 
resembled the slaves, beginning to be introduced into 
the island by the French in 1720, as to cause them 
alarm, and they took to the woods and mountains, 
living there for quite another generation. They also 
adopted the Carib practice of flattening the foreheads 
of their children, so that succeeding generations dif- 
fered generally from their fathers. They now forma 
small community on the northwestern shore of St. 
Vincent, at a place called Morne Ronde. 
Throughout the island of St. Vincent I found traces 
of occupation by the ancient Caribs. These were in 
the shape of implements of war and utensils for de- 
mestic use, of the rudest description: hatchets, axes, 
battle-axes, gouges, Chisels, and spear-heads, of stone, 
generally classed under the head of “celts.” The 
negroes, ever superstitious, attribute to these stones, 
which they occasionally find in the fields, a celestial 
origin, declaring they are “thunderbolts,” and that 
they come down from the sky during thunderstorms. 
This they prove to their entire satisfaction, by citing 
the fact that they are always more abundant after a 
rain. This is evident from the fact that rain washes 
away the earth from these ancient stones which have 
lain so long buried. 
The Caribs did not possess that advancement in 
civilized art that enabled them to produce such sculp- 
tured works of intricate and beautiful design, both in 
stone and wood, as the Spaniards found among the 
