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tradition, the traces of analogy, which are ob- 

 served between the language of the Aruacas 

 and that of the Caribbee women ; but we must 

 recollect, that the Aruacas, although the ene- 

 mies of the Caribbees, belonged to the same 

 branch of people j and that the same similitude 

 exists between the Aruack and Caribbee lan- 

 guages, as between the Greek and the Persian, 

 the German and the Sanscrit. According to 

 another tradition, the Caribbees of the islands 

 came from the south, not as conquerors, but on 

 being expelled from Guyana by the Aruacas, 

 who ruled originally over all the neighbouring 

 nations. Finally, a third tradition*, which is 

 much more general and more probable, makes 

 the Caribbees arrive from North America, and 

 indeed from Florida. A traveller, who has col- 

 lected whatever relates to these migrations from 

 north to south, Mr. Bristock, asserts, that a 

 tribe of Confachites (Confachiqui) had long 

 warred with the Apalachites; that the latter, 

 having yielded to that tribe the fertile district 

 of Amana, called their new confederates Carib- 

 bes (that is valiant strangers) ; but that, in 



* The province of Confachiqui, subject in 1541 to a 

 woman, is become celebrated by the expedition of Hernando 

 de Soto to Florida. (Her. Dec. 1 } p. 21.) Among the 

 nations of the Huron tongue, and the Attakapas, the supreme 

 authority was also often confided to women. Charlevoix, 

 vol. v, p. 397 : Wttson, p. 185.) 



