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on the east, still bears the name of Punta Caribana, as I have 

 already mentioned in the text. In speaking of Alonzo <le 

 Ojeda, Gomara says, " Salib a tierra en Caribana (solar de 

 Cariben como algunos quieren) qae esta a la entrada del golfo 

 de Uraba. Del golfo de Uraba cueutan 70 leguas hasta Car- 

 tagena. Otro golfo esta en medio del Rio Zenii y Caribana de 

 donde se nombran los Caribes." (L. c, fol. ix et xxxi.) Fur- 

 ther eastward, the Caramares Indians (Caraniairi), inhabitants 

 of the coast where the port of Carthagena is now situated, be- 

 lieved also that they were of Carib origin. (Petr. Mart. Oc. p. 

 26, Her. Dec. 1, p. 179.) Herera, generally very exact in his 

 geographical information, calls a bay on the eastern coast of 

 Veragua, CaribacO, a circumstance the more fitted to fix at- 

 tention, as the nations termed Caribs of Uraba, placed their 

 first dwellings beyond the Rio Darien or Atrato. <e Decian 

 los Tndios de esta region que havia tido su naturaleca pasado 

 el Gran Rio de Darien." {Dec. 1, p. 202.) But the most 

 ancient name of the bay of Caribaco, between Cartago and 

 the Laguna Chiriqui, is Caravaro, or Corobaro. ( Gomara 

 Hist., fol. viii. Her. Descr., p. 29. Lcet, p. 345.) There ex- 

 isted no doubt to the west, anthropophagic nations, who, 

 as Christopher Columbus has said (in the Lettera raris- 

 sima del 7 di Junto 1503) tc mangiavano uomini como 

 noi mangiamo oltre animali." Cariari or Cariai, which 

 I erroneously confounded (vol. v, p. 606) with Caribana, 

 was situated at the south of cape Gracias a Dios and the 

 jsle of Quiribiri, probably near the mouth of the Rio San 

 Juan, which is the desaguadero of the lake of Nicaragua, 

 and one of the most important points for the projected com- 

 munication between the two seas. It was at Cariai that 

 Columbus, by an illusion of his ardent imagination, thought 

 he heard mention made of China, (Catay), and the river 

 Ganges. The inhabitants were not of Carib race, but very 

 mild, and given to commerce. Columbus speaks ill of the 

 Women only of this country, whom he calls licentious en- 



