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ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
OBER’s CARRIBEES.—Lee & Shepard, of Boston, have just issued 
a work entitled “Camps in the Carribees,” by Mr. Frederick A. 
Ober, who undertook a scientific exploration of the Lesser Antil- 
les in 1876. The most of the volume is occupied with a racy 
account of the naturalist’s experience in those islands while col- 
lecting specimens in zoology. Chapters vi, vir and x11, however, 
come under our immediate topic. In two of the smaller islands, 
Dominica and Saint Vincent, are the only remnants of that power- 
ful race which struck terror into the hearts of Columbus and his 
followers. Humboldt relates that the Caribs of South America 
called themselves Carina, Calina, Callinago, Caribi, and that the 
name Carib is derived from Calina and Califoona; the latter word 
being the ancient name of their people given to Mr. Ober by the 
Caribs of St. Vincent and Dominica. This name the author seeks 
to connect with Shakespere’s Caliban, and Robinson Crusoe’s 
“Man Friday.” Their ancient savage manners have wonderfully 
changed, for they are now gentle, hospitable, and kind to their 
women. They are naturally much lighter than the typical Indian, 
which has given them the title of “ Yellow Indians.” In Domin- 
ica there are but twenty families of pure Caribs; in Saint Vincent 
less than six. In the latter island there is an interesting people, 
called “ Black Caribs,” formed by the intermarriage of the natives 
with negroes. Mr. Ober confirms the statement of a difference 
between the language of the men and that of the women. They 
have, besides, a certain form of speech which they use amon 
themselves in war-councils. The author inclines to the view that 
the Caribs were the race who made the beautiful stone implements, 
collars, mammiform stones, masks, &c., found throughout these 
islands. In the National Museum is a collection of implements 
brought by Mr. Ober from Saint Vincent. The volume before us 
will prove interesting not only to the ethnologist but to the ornith- 
ologist, as the appendix contains a list of all birds collected. 
Mounn Bur_pers.—The second number of Vol. 11, of the Ameri- 
can Antiquarian contains the following papers: The Mound Build- 
ers; Explorations by the Muscatine Academy of Sciences, by TE 
Stevenson; Alaska and its Inhabitants, by Rev. Shelton Jackson; 
Antiquity of the Tobacco Pipe in Europe. Part 11. Switzerland, 
by E. A. Barber; Fort Wayne (old Fort Miami) and the Route 
from the Maumee to the Wabash, by R. S. Robertson; How the — 
Rabbit Killed the (Male) Winter, an Omaha Fable, by J. O. Dor- 
sey; The Delaware Indians in Ohio, by S. D.*Peet; The Silent 
Races, by L. J. Dupré; Sacrificial Mounds in Illinois and Ohio. 
The paper of Mr. Stevenson upon the explorations of the Mus- 
catine Academy is a very important contribution to mound-litera- 
ture. “From an imaginary point near Drury’s Landing, a few 3 3 
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