CONTEMPT roll OTllElt TRIBES. 
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their rsV 5 but that, OM'ing to a dispute respecting 
J'lorid^^^'Ti!^* Confachite-Caribs were driven from 
(to CV t went first to theTucayas or Liioayes Islands 
the neighbouring islands) ; tlieuce to Ayay 
tslaruW;’ ^unta Cruz), and to the lesser Caribbe'e 
''i sunn ’ bi.stlj’- to the continent of 8outh America.* It 
of oiir event took' place toward the year 11 00 
had 1 , -tn tlie course of this long migration, the Caribs 
'Wt touched at the ’ ' ’ ’ " 
larger 
islands; the inhabitants 
of “"cnei ^ , 
from -pi also believed that they came originally 
(l*orto Ri(Jo)' islanders of Cuba, Hayti, and Boriken 
^‘■""^Jlo^da: 
the according -to the uniform testimony of 
and at . entirely different from the Caribs ; 
had a] ^ of the discovery of America, the latter 
tsland^*:^''' ^ abandoned the group of the lesser Lucayes 
'■arietJ archipelago, in which there prevailed that 
"■recti V ‘^UoUages always found in lands peopled by shin- 
The . 
8*’eat exercised by the Caribs over a 
their anV' e continent, joined to the remembrance of 
dignit'?^' ^®®*'tupss, has inspired them with a sentiment 
lheirim,‘t' natioml superiority, wdiich is manifest in 
tlipv^'*^^* **’^*t.their discourse. “We aloneare anation,” 
niade to l’’’®"crbially ; “the rest of mankind (oqiiili) are 
Enemies This contempt of the Caribs for their 
f®atn witi * strong, that I saw a child of ten years of age 
''® had ne being called a Cabre or Cavere ; though 
t'^nate racrir'“ ®®®“ an individual of that unfor- 
t^abruta fP T people, who gave their name to the town of 
^h"o,st'T>,!'f - '"'bo, after long resistance, were 
'rely exterminated by the Caribs. Thus wo find 
♦ p 
•fotertson vol. i. pp. 320— .T, '•>3 ; Garcia, p. 322 ; 
' ai'ibs of the cn ^ '’® conjecture of Father Gili, that the 
"|st conques(. If"*' *'ave come from the islands at the time of the 
">th all dp “e Spaniards (Sagg io, vol. iii. p, 204), is at variance 
I'olicia qog , p >slas Yucayas era (1492) mas blaiina y de major 
v|>e people of tu t " ^ Haiti. Havia mucha diversidad de lenguas.”— 
*>vilh;g(j manno "® Hucayes were (1492) of fairer complexion and of more 
*"y of laneua«/**i of Cuba and Haiti. Tliey had a great diver* 
Scs.J Gomara, Hist, de Ind. fol. xxii. 
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