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p. 54) 5 Anguilla, Malwuana ; Domingo, Oua'doueonbouh '$ 

 Barbadoes, Ouahomoni ; Marigalante, Aichi ; Saint-Christo* 

 pher, Liamaigana ; Guadaloupe, Calancacura, (of which Pe- 

 trus Martyr Oc. ; Lib. ix, fol. 63, has made Caraqueira) ; the 

 Cape land only Balaorcone ; the low-land only Kaerebone >* 

 Portorico, or San Juan, Borriken or Oubouemoin. I have 

 collected these names because the knowledge of them be- 

 comes indispensable to those who would study the geo- 

 graphy of America at the beginning of the 16th century. I 

 shall add some other names of islands, which, however, are 

 notCarib : Guadaloupe, Guacana. (Gomara, Hist, fol.xxiii) ; 

 Saint Domingo, or Isla Espaaola, Haiti and Quizqueja. 

 The first of these names signifies, in the language of the 

 country, asperity, or mountainous place \ the second, Great 

 Land. (Gomara, fol. xvi) ; Cuba or Fernandina ; Jamaica, 

 Santiago; Trinidad, Cairi. The appearance of the Caribs 

 is every where the same. Laet described those of the banks 

 of the Marwina (Marony), two hundred years ago, exactly 

 as I found the Caribs of the Llanos of Cari. f ' Mares sunt 

 procero et obeso corpore, capillis in orbem detonsis, instar 

 coronse sacerdotalis et eutem rubro colore tincti; velant 

 pudenda panniculo quodam unum palmum lato et duos longo, 

 csetera, nudi : fceminas pusillo sunt corpore/' (Descript. of 

 the West Indies^ p. 647. See also Archccol. Americana, 

 Vol. i, p. 365-— 433.) The geographical denominations of 

 Caribana, Carini, and Cariari merit some investigation. The 

 gulph of Uraba, (gulph of canoes, for itru signifies canoe, 

 Petr. Mart. p. 32 C), into which the great Rio Atrato throws 

 itself, (Rio San Juan or Rio Dabeiba), did not bear the 

 name of the gulph of Darien in the 16th century. A pro- 

 vince situated between the mouth of the Rio Sinu (Zenu), 

 and that of the Atrato, was then called Caribana. Gomara 

 (Hist, de las Indias, 1553, fol. 30) names the following places 

 from east to west : " Caribana, Zena, Carthagena, Zamba y 

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