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inhabitants of Cuba and Haiti at the time of their dis- 
covery. They confined their efforts to the production 
of axes for hollowing out their canoes, and the manu- 
facture of implements of war. They made pottery, 
but I doubt if the cotton found in their huts by Colum- 
bus was of their own weaving. It is more probable 
that it was taken from the Arowaks of the greater 
islands. 
In the forests there are yet more striking evi- 
dences of aboriginal occupation, which would tell us 
that there once existed here a people different from 
those of the present day, were there no written or tra- 
ditional chronicles of their existence. In a valley of 
the Caribbean side of St. Vincent is a large rock cov- 
