C a p. V ' ! . The Garibby-Iflands. 



leap up and down and rejoyce, laying in their corrupt Lan- 

 guage, Miy honne Caraibe, J am an honefi Caribbim : That 

 otherwife ■ ; y only make ufe of that word when they are 

 amongftSt angers, and that in their trading and their commu- 

 nication w th them, to make a certain difcovery of themfelves, 

 as being fenfible that the laid name is known to them : But that 

 when they are among themfel ves, not only they, but alfo thole 

 of their Nation Inhabiting the Continent, and the Calibites, 

 call themfelves by the name of Calinago, which is the name of 

 the. Men, andCal/iponan, which is that of the Women. And 

 they further affirm, that they are call?d Oubao-bonon, that is, /«- 

 habitants of the iflands, or Iflanders 5 as the call thofe of the 

 Continent Batoue-bonon, that is, Inhabitants of the Firm Land. 



But all this prefuppos'd as probable, there is but little likeli- 

 hood that the word Caribbians mould have been impos'd upon 

 them by the Spaniards ,and that our Iflands mould not have had 

 it before they were known by them. The firft reafon we give 

 of this aflertion is, that before either the Spaniards or Tortu- 

 guez had found a paflage into Brazil, there were in thofe Parts 

 certain men more fubtle and ingenious then the reft, whom the 

 Brafilians call'd Caraibes,ov Caribbians , as Johannes de Lery hath 

 obferv'd in his Hiftory. Secondly, it is a thing out of all con- 

 troverfie that there are certain Savages who bear the name of 

 Caribbians in fome Quarters of the Southerly part of America, 

 where the Spaniards never had any Commerce : For not only 

 thofe of the fame Nation with our Iflanders, who inhabit along 

 thofe Coafts of the Meridional America, and are neer Neigh- 

 bours to the Dutch Colonies of Cayenna and Berbica 3 but thofe 

 alfo who live far within that Meridional Continent ..beyond the 

 fources of the moft remarkable rxivers,call themfelves Caribbi, 

 ans. Moreover, we ftiall find in the fequel of this Chapter, 

 that there is in the Septentrional Continent a powerful Nation 

 confifting for the moft part of certain Families, who at this 

 prefent take a great pride in being called Caribbians, and ftand 

 upon it, that they had receiv'd that name long before America 

 was difcover'd. Add to this, that though it were granted that 

 the Spaniards would have impos'd "that name on all thofe Nati- 

 ons, how can it be prov'd that they were as willing to accept of 

 it from People unknown and Enemies to them ? Now it is cer- 

 tain, that not only all thofe people do call themfelves Caribbi- 

 ans, but alfo that they withal think it a glory, and derive an 

 advantage from that name, as Monfieur du Montel hath heard it 

 from their own mouths .* How then is it to be imagin'd that they 

 fliould triumph in a name which they had receiv'd from their 

 Enemies? Nay if it be urg'd further, as we (hall fee anon, that 

 the Anceftors of our Savage Inhabitants of the Iflands receiv'd 

 from the Apalachites the name of Caribbians, inftead of that of 

 Cofachites } under which they went before 5 it may be replyed, 



That 



