THE WEST INDIES. 
The West Indies present a most attractive field of 
research for the archeologist -- a field as yet touched 
upon only superficially save for the recent researches of 
Doctor Fewkes . The archipelago stretches out over upwards 
of 1600 miles of open expanse, the Lesser Antilles connecting 
somewhat closely with South America, and through the Bahamas 
with Eastern Florida. The greatest expanse of open sea between 
South America and the Lesser Antilles is that separating the 
Island Tobago from island, a distance of 80 miles, the 
distance between the Bahamas and the Florida coast not ex- 
ceeding 60 miles, and Yucatan is 120 miles from the west 
extremity of the Island of Cuba and within historic times 
the peoples have included two great llguistic stocks — the 
arawacK and the Carib . Both are believed to have been derived 
frOui South America. The former had practical possession of 
