IIo CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
ests of Honduras and Central America; but that they 
originated in the same continent of South America, 
there seems to be abundant evidence to prove. We 
can trace them from South America northward, kill- 
ing and devouring as they went. In the time of 
Columbus the people of Porto Rico were beginning to 
feel alarm from their incursions; and the Spaniard 
may be consoled by the thought that if he had not 
murdered his millions, the Caribs would have event- 
ually depopulated these peaceful isles. We have seen 
that they had gained possession of all the Lesser An- 
tilles, Coming up from the south, and probably were 
the same who possessed Jamaica from the west, coast- 
ing the shore northward from Darien and crossing the 
intervening sea. According to the Spanish writers 
of the sixteenth century, the Carib nation then ex- 
tended over eighteen or nineteen degrees of latitude, 
from the Virgin Islands, east of Porto Rico, to the 
mouths of the Amazon. It seems, then, but a ques- 
tion of time when they would have possessed every 
island in the Caribbean Sea. 
It is not my purpose to attempt to trace ancient 
American civilization, but merely to describe the 
northern limits of a people contemporary with the 
more civilized Indians. Their warlike character and 
unyielding nature is fully shown in their resistance to 
the yoke of slavery the Spaniards sought to put upon 
them, when they perished fighting rather than yield 
to the oppressors. 
How changed are the Caribs of the present day! 
They have intermarried with the negroes to such an 
extent that their individuality is nearly lost. Their 
free mode of life, their long journeys by sea, their 
