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OEIGIJT Ot CAjriftBAI;.” 
Wted in three small villages, Suraba, Toanequi, anclJaraguia. 
This population vsras computed, at the period when I tra- 
velled there, to be 3000. The natives, comprehended in the 
general name of Caymans, live at peace with the inhabitants 
of San Bernardo del Viento (pueblo de JSspanoles), situated 
on the western bank of tlie Kio Sinu, lower tlian San Nicolas 
de Zispata, and near the mouth of the river. These people 
'lave not the fei'ocity of the Darien and Cunas Indians, on 
file left bank of the Atrato ; who often attack tlie boats 
trading with the town ot Quidbo in the Choco ; they also 
make incursions on the territory of Uraba, in the months of 
J une and November, to collect the fruit of the cacao-trees. 
The cacao of Uraba is of excellent quality ; and the Darien 
Indians sometimes come to sell it, with other productions, 
to the inhabitants of Bio Sinu, entering the valley of that 
river by one of its tributary streams, the Jaraguai. 
It cannot be doubted that the Gulf of Darien was consi- 
dered, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, as a nook 
m the country of the Caribs. The word Caribana is still 
preserved in the name of the eastern cape of that gulf We 
know nothing of the languages of the Darien, Cuims, and 
t^ayman Indians : and we know not whether Carib or Arowak 
"'ords are found in their idioms ; but it is certain, iiotwith- 
stauding the testimony of Anghiera on the identity of the 
race of the Caribs of the Desser Antilles and the Indians of 
Uraba, that Pedro de Cieqa, who lived so long among the 
latter, never calls them Cai’ibs nor cannibals. He describes 
tile race of that tribe as being naked with long hair, and 
going to the neighbouring countries to trade ; and says the 
"omen are cleanly, well dressed, and extremely engaging 
(amorosas v galanas). “I have not seen, adds the Con- 
quistador, “ any women more beautiful* in all the Indian 
* Cronica del Peru, pp. 21, 22. The Tndi.ans of Darien, Urab.a, 
(^inu), Tatabe, tbc valleys of Nore and of G«ac.i, the mountains of Abibe 
“ad Antioquia, are accused, by the same author, of the most ferocious 
cannibalism; and perhaps that circumstance alone gives rise to the idea 
that they were of the same race as the Caribs of the West Indies. In the 
relebrated Provision Real of the 30th of October, 1503, by wbicb the 
Spaniards are permitted to make slaves of the anthropopbagie Indians 
the archipelago of San Bernardo, opposite tlie mouth of the Rio Simi, 
the Ula Fuerte, Isla Bura (Baru), and Cartbagena, there is more c4 
