:H£RMA.5£>’CY or NAMJiS. 
8 .. 
are 
in- 
of 
t]^ w, ^'’sterly ciirronta ; but it also may liave happened, 
eav +1!^ Spanish navigators, little attentive to languages, 
of t 11 Carib and Cannibal to every race of people 
j ^ stature and ferocious character. Still it is by^ no 
took^f P^’^t^able that the Caribs ot the islands and of Parima 
themselves the name of the region which they had 
cIvt'^ inhabited. On the east of the Andes, and wherever 
niv Pas not yet penetrated, it is the people who have 
^0^? ^^'Kies to the places where they have settled.* The 
epi ® ^‘■'ribs and Cannibals appear significant; they a: 
tell' I'nferring to valour, strength, and even superior i 
It is worthy of remark, that, at the arrival 
pa^'^^^^^'^Snese, the Brazilians gave to their magicians the 
of caraihes. We know that the Caribs ot Parima were 
ipj.®°®t Wandering people of America; possibly some wily 
of that nation played the same part as the 
read 1 ''n* ancient continent. The names of nations 
in P®'^oine affixed to particular professions ; and when, 
intr''^ “®e _of the C^sars.the superstitions of the East were 
Pank into Italy, the Chaldeans no more came from the 
® the Euphrates than our Glypsics (Egyptians or 
came from the banks of the Nile or the Kibe, 
one continent and its adjacent islands are peopled by 
thes'*^^'^ the same race, we may choose between two hypo- 
from^Vi ®'yPP°®i°g the emigration to have taken place either 
the ■ 1'^ islands to the continent, or from the continent to 
the The Iberians (Basques), who were settled at 
time in Spain and in the islands of the Mediter- 
instance of this problem ; as do also the 
Mal'^^ appear to be indigenous in the peninsula ot 
rjf and in the district of Menangkabao in the island 
Indi'^Ti^'^’^ The archipelago of the large and small West 
a Islands forms a narrow and broken neck of land, 
* TVif» 
succeed “utnes of places can be perpetuated only where the nations 
■^upted to each other, and where the tradition is uninter- 
Andes'b province of Quito, many of the summits of the 
the Inc names which belong neither to the Qnichua (the language of 
t^onchocand"^ a"u'rut language of the Paruays, governed by the 
t py***®'^‘^* *ays : “ Charaibi magna* sapientise viri.” 
htdigen^" t ^‘‘utipel., vol. ii. p. 371. I make use of the word 
ous (autoctlioni), not to indicate a fact of creation, which does not 
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