Ill 
from Guadaloupe, 
The human skeletons from Guadaloupe are called Galibi 
by the natives of that island ; a name said to have been that 
of an ancient tribe of Caribs of Guiana; but which, according 
to your plausible conjecture, originated in the substitution of 
the letter I instead of r in the word Caribee. I find no mention 
made of them by any author, except General Ernouf, in a 
letter to M. Faujas St. Fond, inserted in Vol. V. (1805) of 
the Annales du Museum ; and by M. Lavaisse, in his Voyage 
d la Ttinidad, &c. published in 1813. The former of these 
gentlemen writes, that on that part of the windward side of 
the Grande-Terre, called La Moule, skeletons are found en- 
veloped in what he terms Masses de Madrepores petrifies/' 
which being very hard, and situated within the line of high 
water, could not be worked without great difficulty, but that 
he expected to succeed in causing some of these masses to be 
detached, the measurements of which he states to be about 
eight feet by two and a half. 
The block brought home by Sir Alex. Cochrane exactly 
answered this account, with regard to the measurements ; its 
thickness was about a foot and a half. It weighed nearly two 
tons ; its shape was irregular, approaching to a flattened oval, 
with here and there some concavities, the largest of which, as 
it afterwards appeared, occupying the place where the thigh 
bone had been situated, the lower part of which was therefore 
wanting. Except the few holes evidently made to assist in 
raising the block, the masons here declared that there was no 
mark of a tool upon any part of it; and indeed the whole had 
very much tlie appearance of a huge nodule disengaged from 
a surrounding mass. 
The situation of the skeleton in the block was so superficial. 
