Cap, XIX. The Caribby-lflands. 



as we faid elfewhere, on which they fet the meat and the CUfik 

 va not folded, but as they come off the Plank : The women 

 fet them at their feet, and the men ftanding about, (hew that 

 which was brought, faying. En Terebaili, behold thy meat : Af- 

 terwards the women bring in Gourds full of Ouicou, and make 

 them drink: Then having fet them on the ground before 

 them, the Husband who ftands behind the women, fays, En 

 batoni, behold thy drinhj. And the other makes anfwer to thefe 

 two complements, Tao, that is to fay, very well, or I thank you. 

 The Cajfava unfolded fignifiesj eat thy fill and Carry away the 

 reft" 5 which they fail not to do : When they have dined well 

 without being interrupted by any one, they all come to falute 

 them one after another, faying to him, Halea-tibou, that is, be 

 welcoMei But the women are not much concerned in this Ce- 

 remony. As for the Vifitants when they would depart, they go 

 and take leave of every one in particular 5 which they expreft 

 by the word Huiehan in their language. 



GHAP. XIX. 



Of what may be accounted Polity among ft the 

 Caribbians. 



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Here are ip every Ifland of the Caribbies, inhabited by 

 the Caribbians, feyeral forts of Captains : 1. The Captain 

 of the Carbet, or of a Village., whom they name Tiouboutouli 

 bauthe: This, is when a man hath a numerous Family and re- 

 lires with it at a certain diftance from others, and builds Hou- 

 fes or Huts for to lodge it in, and a Car bet, where all of the Fa- 

 mily meet to be merry, or to treat of the affairs which concern 

 it in common > thence it is that he is named a Captain of a Fa- 

 flply, or of Houfes. 



„j 2. A Captain of a Viraga, that is, either he to whom the 

 Veffel belongs, or he who hath the command of it when they 

 go to the Wars 5 and thefe are named Tiouboutouli Canaoa. 

 r 3»Among(t thofe who have every one the command of a 

 Veffel in particular, they have alfo an Admiral or General at 

 $ea, Who commands the whole Fleet: Him they call Nhalene, 

 In fine, they have the grand Captain, or Commander in chief 3 

 whom they cdXlOuboutou, and in the plural number, Ouboutou- 

 num : This is the fame whom the Spaniards call Cacique (and 

 we in this Hiftory call CacickS) asfome other Indians, and fome- 

 nmes alfo our Savages do in imitation of.them : He is during 

 iiis life, from his firft election to that charge, the General of 



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