TbeHiftory of 



Book II 



themfelves in the particular relation they make of their Extra- 

 ction, and the occafion that brought them into thofe Iflands5 

 nor can they give any account of the time of their coming thi- 

 ther. We (hall here fet down what thofe of S. Vincent and 

 fome others have related to Monfieur du Montel concerning 

 themfelve8,which we have taken out of his curious Collections. 



All the Caribbians were heretofore fubjecl: to the Arouagues^ 

 and obey'd their Prince 5 but fome among them not able to en- 

 dure that yoke , broke out into a Rebellion : And that they 

 might the better live undifturb'd, and at a diftance from their 

 Enemies, they retreated to the C aribby -\{\m6s, which were 

 not at that time inhabited 5 and their firft landing was in the 

 II land of Tabdgo, which is one of the neereft to the Continent: 

 Afterwards the other Calibites (hook of the Domination of the 

 Arouagues $ but finding themfelves ftrong enough, or not ha- 

 ving the fame inclination with the former, they continu'd in 

 their Country , and what they had at the time of their revolt 

 they have kept ever fince, and live free in the Country , but 

 Enemies to the Arouagues, having a Captain-General of their 

 own Nation, by whom they are commanded. They have alfo 

 continu'd to this prefent Friends and Confederates to the Ca- 

 ribbians, 



Upon this Relation it is that fome ground the explication 

 they make of the word Caribbians, as if it fignified Rebells 3 

 whether it was impos'd upon them by the Arouagues, or that 

 thofe people alTum'd it of themfelves by wav of triumph, as 

 deriving a certain glory from their noble Infurre&ion, and the 

 generous Rebellion which eftablifiYd them in peace and liber- 

 ty .* But there needs no more to (hew that the word Caribbian 

 does not fignifie Rebel, as among others a certain Journal of a 

 Dutch-man, than that there are many Colonies in feveral parts 

 of the Continent of America, both the Septentrional and Me- 

 ridional, which no body pretends or can pretend were ever un- 

 der the power of the Arouagues, which yet are known by the 

 name of Caribbians. And as to the being among them any that 

 have rebelfd againft other Sovereigns, only this may be inferr'd 

 thence, That being lince reconcil'd to them , and living to 

 this day in the midft of them , under the faid name of. Carib- 

 bians, as we (hall fee more particularly anon, there is no like- 

 lihood that it mould fignifie Rebels, fince it were a blading of 

 their Reputation, and a mark of Infamy to them. 



But thofe who have convers'd a long time together among 

 the Savages of Dominico relate, that the Caribbian Inhabitants 

 of that Ifland are of opinion, that their Anceftors came out of 

 the Continent, from among the Calibites, to make a War 

 againft a Nation of the Arouagues, which inhabited the Iflands, 

 which Nation they utterly deftroy'd, excepting only the Wo- 

 men, whom they took to themfelves , and by that means re- 

 peopled 



