Cap. VI I TAeCaribby-lliands. 



got in a few days to Cigdteo, where they were very eiyiJIy en- 

 tertain'd by the Inhabitants, who, having fupply'd them with 

 all neceffary refrefhments 3 conduced tbem to the nioft remote 

 of their Iflands, and thence gave them a Convoy to bring them 

 to the next of the defart Iflands whereof they had given them 

 a relation, which they call'd Ay ay, but it is now call'd Santa, 

 Cruz,: In their paflage they fail'd by the Ifland of Boriqtten, 

 now call'd forto-Rico, which was inhabited by a very powerful 

 Nation. 



It was then in the faid Ifland of Ay ay that our Caribbians laid 

 the firft foundations of their Colony, and where enjoying an 

 undifturbed Peace, which made them forget all precedent mif- 

 fortunes, they multipli'dfo, that within a few years they were 

 forc'd to fpread themfelves into all the other Iflands now 

 known by the name of the Caribbbies : And fome Ages after, 

 having poflefs'd themfelves of all the inhabitable Iflands, they 

 tranfported themfelves into the Continent of the Meridional 

 part of America^ where they have at this day many great and nu- 

 merous Colonies, wherein they are fo well fetled, that though' 

 theTaos y the Sappayos, thGfaragotis, the Arouacas or Arouagues^ 

 who are their Neighbours in the Ifland of Trinity , and the Pro- 

 vinces of Oritroca, have often attempted to force them out of 

 their habitations, and engag'd againft them with all their For- 

 ces 5 yet do they ftill continue in them in a flourifhing conditi- 

 on, and entertain fo good a correfpondence and fo perfect a 

 friendihip with our Caribbians^ the Inhabitants of the Iflands, 

 that thefe latter march out once or twice a year to their relief, 

 joyning all together with the Calibites 0 their Friends and Cc n- 

 federares, againft the Arouagues, and other Nations, their com- 

 mon Enemies. 



There is yet another Story concerning theorigine of the In- 

 fulary Caribbians, which is, That they are defended from their 

 Confederates the Calibites ; and we are apt to believe fbmwhat 

 of it may be true 5 as being the only account which moft of them 

 can give of themfelves : For thefe Caribbians being lefs pow- 

 erful then the Calibites, when they firft came among them into 

 the Continent , and having afterwards enter'd into Alliance 

 with them by Marriages and common concernments,they made 

 up together but one people, and fo there enfu'd a mutual com- 

 munication of Language and particular Cuftoms : And thence 

 it comes that a great part of the Caribbians, having forgot their 

 firft origine, would have it believ'd that they are defcended 

 from the Calibites : And it is to be prelum 'd, that it being out of 

 all memory of man, when their Predeceflbrs came from the 

 Northern parts into thefe Iflands, they have not any knowledg, 

 of their Native Country, which having caft them out of her 

 bofom, and treated them as Rebels, was not fo far regretted 

 by thofe poor Fugitives, as that they (hould be over-carefui 

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