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Arawak which he had in his basket. They only eat the 
Arawaks now, savages from the Orinoco. They say that 
Christians would give them stomach ache, nevertheless 
not a year ago they ate the hearts of some Englishmen. 
Many negroes live just as the Caribs, especially at St. 
Vincent where they have their stronghold. Some of 
these are escaped prisoners in war by the Caribs and 
are called Tamons ; but most of them came from a 
Flemish or Spanish ship which was wrecked near these 
Islands. 
Their (Caribs') arms are bows and arrows, the club, 
and the knife. The bouton is a kind of club made 
out of green-wood or hard brasil-wood, massive, heavy, 
2 and 3 feet long, and carved according to their custom. 
With one blow they kill a man. The arrows are always 
made long before hand, and in great quantity. They are 
made out of the hollow joint which grows on top of a certain 
reed about 4 or 5 feet long, polished, without knots, and 
light as a feather. At the large end of this, they adjust, 
instead of iron, a piece of green wood, \ foot long, with 
several notches on it, so as to prevent it being drawn out 
easily. 
The ends of these are poisoned with the juice of a tree 
called Manceniller, and the fruit Mancanille, a name 
given by the Spaniards, because this fruit resembles 
apples. Many Europeans were poisoned when the West 
Indies were first discovered, by eating indiscreetly of these 
fruits. An incision is made in the bark. The juice 
which comes out is as white as milk, and much 
more deadly than snake poison for their arrows. They 
sometimes use certain long fish-bones, taken from the 
tail of the ray. These bones are poisonous, and 
