The Hiflory of Book Ii. 



Piragas - 0 fo that if the VefTel comes to overturn, which hap- 

 pens often, they fet it right again without lofing any thing of 

 DcLery, what was in it : And upon thofe occafions, being fo good 

 ci 3. Swimmers as we have reprefented them, they are not troubled 

 for their own perfons, fo far that they have fometimes laugh'd 

 at the Chriftians, who, being neer them upon thofe occafions* 

 endeavour'd to relieve them. Thus the Tapinambous laugh'd 

 Chap. 1 2. at fome French men upon the like accident, as De Lery relates. 



The fails of the Caribbians are made of Cotton, or a kind of 

 Mat of Palm-leaves : They have an excellent faculty of row- 

 ing with certain little Oars, which they move very fair. They 

 take along with them alfo fome Canons, which are their leaft 

 kind of VeiTels, to attend their Piragas. 



Their cuftom is to go from Ifland to Ifland to refrefti 

 themfelves, and to that end they have Gardens even in thofe 

 which are defert, and not inhabited : They alfo touch at the 

 Illands of their own Nation, to joyn their Forces, and take 

 in as they go along all thofe that are in a condition to ac- 

 company them 5 and fo their Army increafes, and with that 

 equipage they get with little noife to the Frontiers. 



When they fail along the Coafts, and night comes upon 

 them, they bring their Veflels afhore, and in half an hours 

 • time they make up their lodging- place under fome Tree with 

 Balifter and Latanier-leaves, which they faften together on 

 poles or reeds, fuftain'd by forks planted in the ground, which 

 ferve for a foundation to this little ftructure, and to hang their 

 beds on : Thefe lodgings thus made in hafte they call Aioupa. 

 Plut. in the The Lacedamontan Law-giver had forbidden, among other 

 Life ef Ly- things, that War mould be always wag'd againft the fame 

 curgus. Enemies, for fear they might thereby grow more experienc'd 

 in Military Affairs : But the Caribbians follow not thofe Ma- 

 ximes, nor fear any fuch inconvenience 5 for they always make 

 War againft the fame Nation : Their ancient and irreconcil- 

 able Enemies are the Arouacas, Arouaques or Aronagues, which 

 is the name commonly given them in the Iflands, though the 

 Caribbians call them Alouagues 3 who live in that part of the 

 Meridional America which is known in the Maps under the 

 name of the Province of Guyana or Guayana, not far from the 

 Rivers which fall down out of that Province into the Sea. 

 The caufe of this immortal enmity between our Infulary Ca- 

 ribbians and thofe people hath been already hinted in the 

 Chapter of the Origine of the Caribbians, to wit, that thofe 

 Arouagues have cruelly perfecuted the Caribbians of the Conti- 

 nent, their Neighbours, the Relations of our Hlanders, and of 

 the fame Nation with them 5 and that they have continually 

 warr'd againft them to exterminate them, or at leaft, to drive 

 them out of their habitations. Thefe Arouagues then are the 

 people whom our Hlanders go and find out in their own Coun- 

 try, 



