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to preferve the memory of it. On the contrary, it is credible, 

 that thefooner to forget themiferies they had furler'd, they efc 

 fac'd the fad ideas therof as much as they could, and were glad 

 of any other Origine : It may be alfoj that when the Caribbians 

 firft enter d the Iflands,upon their coming from the North, they 

 were not fo deftitute of Inhabitants , but that there were here 

 and there fome Families which might have pafs'd over thither 

 from the Iflands of Hijpaniola or Porto-Rico 0 which they de- 

 fhoy'd, referving only the Women, whom they might make 

 ufe of for the propagation of their Colony: And of this there is 

 yet a greater probability,™ that thefe Caribbians being banifti'd 

 from among the Apalachites, and by War forc'd to leave the 

 Country to the victorious Party, many of their Wives ftaid 

 behind among the Apalachites, and the reft of their own Nati- 

 on who had joynd with them : And thence poffibly may pro- 

 ceed the difference there is between the Language of the Men 

 and that of the Women amongft the Caribbians. 



But to give a more particular account of thofe Colonies 

 of the Caribbians which are in the Meridional Continent of 

 America^ in the firft place, the Relations of thofe who have 

 entred into the famous River of Orenoca, diftant from the 

 Line, Northward, eight degrees and fifty minutes, affirm* that 

 at a great diftance within the Country, there live certain Ca- 

 ribbians who might eafily have pafs'd over thither from the 

 Ifland of Tabago , which, of all the Caribbies, is the neereft to 

 that Continent. 



The Dutch Relations acquaint us, that, advancing yet fur- 

 ther towards the ./Equator, there lies, at feven degrees from 

 that Line, the great and famous River of Effequeba, neer which 

 are planted firft the Arouagues^xA next to them the Caribbians^ 

 who are continually in war with them, and have their habita- 

 tions above the falls of that River, which defcend with great 

 violence from the Mountains 5 and thence thefe Caribbians 

 reach to the fourceof the fame River, and are very numerous, 

 and poffefs'dof a vaft territory. 



The fame Travellers relate, that within fix degrees of the 

 Line lies the River Sarname, or Svriname, into which falls ano- 

 ther River named ikputeca, all along which there are many 

 Villages inhabited by Caribbians. 



There is befides a numerous people of the fame Nation, 

 Inhabitants of a Country which reaches a great way into the 

 Continent, the coafts whereof extend to the fifth and fixth 

 degree North of the Equator, fcituate along a fair and great 

 River named Afarou/ne, about eighteen Leagues diftant from 

 that of Sarname^ which from its lource erodes up and down 

 above two hundred leagues of Country, in which there are ma- 

 ny Villages inhabited by Caribbians 5 who, obferving the fame 

 coftome with the Iflanders, make choice of the moft valiant 



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