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thantresses. " Quando aggionsi, (he writes to the king ami 

 queen of Castile,) incontinente mi mandarono doe fanciulle 

 ornate di richi vestimenti : la piu di tempo non saria di eta 

 di anni undici, l'altra di sette ; tutte due con tanta pratica con 

 tante atti et tonto vedere che saria bastato, se fossero state 

 puttane publiche vinti anni. Portovano con esse loro polvere 

 di incantamenti e altre cose della loro arte." The admiral re- 

 sisted all these arts of seduction, and hastened to send the young 

 girls on shore. {Letter a rar., p. 9. 25. Petr. Martyr. Oc, p. 53. 

 A. Her. Dec. J, p. 132.) The name of Cariari appears a se- 

 cond time in the north-east part of South America. Go m li- 

 ra, in describing the coast from West to east, adds, " De 

 Sant Roman al golfo triste (entre Punta Tucacas et Portoca- 

 belo) ay 50 leguas en que cac Curiana (Coro el pais de los 

 Curianas. Per. Nar. vol. iii. p. 526.) Del golfo triste al 

 golfo de Cariari ai 100 leguas de costa, puesta en lOgrados 

 y que tiene a puerto de Canafistola Chiribichi y Rio de C li- 

 ra an a, y punta de Araia." (Hist, de las Indias, fol. viii.) 

 From this ancient Portulan it results, that, if the golfo di 

 Cariari is not identical with the gulph of Cariaco, it is but at 

 a small distance. Is this repetition of the same geographi- 

 cal denominations on the coast of Veragua, and that of Cu- 

 mana, connected with the ancient migrations of the nations 

 of Carib race ? What I stated in the text, of the knowledge 

 the Caribs of Uraba had of hieroglyphic paintings, is found- 

 ed on the following passage : " Legum peritus dictus Cor- 

 rales, Dariensium (Futeracae et Caribanse) praetor urbanus, 

 inquit se occurrisse cuidam fugitivo ex internis occidentali- 

 bus magnis terris qui ad regulum repertum a se profugerat. 

 Is legentem cernens praetorem insilivit admirabundus atque 

 per interpretis, qui reguli hospitis sui linguam callebant : 

 en quid et vos libros habetis, en et vos characteris quibus 

 absentes vos intelligat assequimini ? Oravit una ut apertus 

 sibi libellus ostenderetur, putans se literas patrias visurum. 

 Dissimiles reperit eas esse." (Petr. Mart. Oc., p. 65. D.) 



