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given to ali the rest by the neighbouring nations ; 

 sometimes also the names of places become the 

 denominations of a people, or these appellations 

 take rise from an epithet of derision, or the for- 

 tuitous alteration of a word ill-pronounced. The 

 name of Caribbees, which I find for the first 

 time in a letter of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera* is 

 derived from Calina and Caripuna, the / and p 

 being transformed into r and b. It is indeed very 

 remarkable, that this name, which Columbus 

 heard pronounced by the people of Haiti -f, 

 was found at the same time among the Carib- 

 bees of the islands and those of the continent. 

 From the word Carina, or Calina, has been 

 formed Galibi (Caribi) ; a denomination by 

 which a tribe is known in French Guyana J, 



* Petr. Mart. Epist. ad Pomp. Letum (Non. Dec. 1494) 

 Lib. VII, No. 147, fol. xxxv j and Ocean., Lib. I, fol. 2, A. 

 According to the Caribbee pronunciation, balana and parana, 

 the sea, are confounded together. 



+ Fern. Col, Cap. 34 ; in Churchill's Coll., vol. 2, p. 538. 

 Herera, Dec. J, p. 34. 



i The Galibis (Calibitis), the Palicours, and the Aco- 

 quouas, have also the custom of cutting the hair in the manner 

 of the monks ; and of applying bandages to the legs of then- 

 children, in order to swell the muscles. They have the same 

 predilection for green stones (saussurite), which we recogniz- 

 ed among the Caribbee nations of the Oroonoko (vol. v, p. 

 383). There exist besides in French Guyana twenty Indian 

 tribes, which are distinguished from the Galibis, though their 

 language proves, that they have a common origin. Barrere f 

 France equin., p. 121, 239* Lescallier, sur la Guyane, p. 78. 



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