CONrOElIATION OF CAUIB SKULXS 
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I by having been pressed between planks. They 
fr ^®loiiged to Zambos (black Caribs), who are descended 
jj°,®^egroe3 and true Caribs.* The barbarous habit of 
De tke forehead is practised by several nations, t of 
rec ^ +1 **" observed 
(.] ®^"v in. North America; but nothing is more vague than 
and that some degree of conformity in customs 
soi proves identity of origin. On observing the 
order and submission which prevails in the Carib 
he traveller can scarcely persuade himself that 
cannibals. This American word, of somewhat 
of it” • ®’Snification, is probably derived from the language 
or that of Porto llico ; and it has passed into the 
assuages of Europe, since the end of the fifteenth century, 
(^i ynonymous with that of anthropophagi. “ These newly 
Qay °''®red man-eaters, so greedy of human flesh, are called 
Ids “ n ^'“’libals,” f says Anghiera, in the third decade of 
'ittl ^®®‘‘oica,” dedicated to Pope Leo X. There can be 
iim ^ that the Caribs of the islands, wLen a conquer- 
exercised cruelties upon the Tgneris, or ancient 
itants of the West Indies, who were weak aud not veiw' 
* Tl 
dunishp'a** **oto' tuuate reiniiants of a nation heretofore powerful were 
'>ecause°ttl'* ^795, to the Island of Rattani, in the Bay of Honduras, 
"cxions accused by the English Government of having oon- 
(’'■oposps'I*™ f^rench. In 1760, an able minister, M. Lcseallier, 
from St Court of Versailles to invito the Red and Black Caribs 
®nltivati' to Guiana, and to employ them as free men in the 
’"nount *rr the land. I doubt whether their number at that period 
“ot thousand, as the island of St. Vincent contained in 1787 
+ “ fourteen thousand inhabitants of all colours. 
^olkeeke the Tapoyranas of Guiana (Barrere, p. 239), the 
Indies d f’ Louisiana (Walckenaer, Cosmos, p. 583). “ Los 
®®'^C 9 a m says Gomara (Hist, de lud.), “ aprietan alos niflos ia 
ensanohaV pero mucho, entre dos almohadillas de algodon para 
tcnogiiea'^ *** * tienen por hermosura. Las donzellas traen 
“"islos V ®Prctados por debaxo y encima de las rodillas, para que los 
'^“"n the l**'*i°”"** mucho.” [The Indians of Cumana press 
^oc the 01 “fyonng infants tightly between cushions stuffed with cotton, 
youn*^*** of giving width to their faces, which they regard as a beauty. 
Pxe thirV^ wear very tight bandages round their knees, in order to 
♦ •• I;® thighs atid calves of the legs.] 
•Has r.!t. ?®f® “cnianarum carnium novi helluones anthropophagi, Caribe* 
'-amhales appellati.” 
