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the Caribbees. Cuseru,the chief of the Guaypu- 

 nabis, had fixed his dwelling- behind the granitic 

 mountains of Sipapo. He was the friend of 

 the Jesuits ; but other nations of the Upper 

 Oroonoko and the Rio Negro, the Marepiza- 

 noes, the Amuizanoes, and the Manitivitanoes, 

 led by Imu, Cajamu, and Cocuy, penetrated 

 from time to time to the north of the Great 

 Cataracts. They had other motives for fighting 

 than that of hatred ; they hunted men, as was 

 formerly the custom of the Caribbees, and is 

 still the practice in Africa. Sometimes they 

 furnished slaves (poitos) to the Dutch or Para- 

 naquiri (inhabitants of the sea) ; sometimes 

 they sold them to the Portugueze or Iaranavi 

 (sons of musicians)* . In America, as in Africa, 

 the cupidity of the Europeans has produced the 

 same evils, by exciting the natives to make war, 

 in order to procure slaves^. Every where the 

 contact of nations far different from each other 

 in their degree of civilization leads to the abuse 

 of physical strength, and of intellectual prepon- 

 derance. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians 

 formerly sought slaves in Europe. Europe now 

 presses in their turn both on the countries where 



* The savage tribes designate every commercial nation of 

 Europe by surnames, the origin of which appears altogether 

 accidental. T have already mentioned in another place (vol. 

 iii, p. 268), that the Spaniards were called clothed men, 

 Pongkeme or Uavemi, by way of distinction. 



+ See above, vol. ii, p. 245 ; and vol. iii, p. 2. 



