Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies

tion of RALEIGH of the word Salvagay by "Salivas"l) is only
arbitrary, and improbable.
FEWKES dra"\v5 the conclusion, that the Indians seen and
observed by COLUMBUS on Trinidad at the time of his third voyage,
belonged to the Arawak race. 2 ) Everything seems to confirm,
that this opinion is justified. On the other hand, it is not true
that Carib tribes3) were not also established on Trinidad, although
the principal part of the population was Arawak.
The older Spanish accounts give us little enlightenment as to
which races one time peopled Trinidad, and where they lived.
The Basque, J"C"AK BONO, who visited Trinidad in 1516 and took
180 Indians away with him, found the people friendly and the
cannibal Caribs of a hostile character. 4) Consequently he must
have lived among the Arawaks. FIGUEROA could only have known
Arawaks on Trinidad, for he describes the population only as
"guatiaos 6 amigos de los cristianos."5) In the account of RODRIGO
DE NAVARRETE. Trinidad is included also in the list of regions
inhabited by the Arawaks.6) Yet in early times the report was
current among the Spaniards, that on Trinidad lived warlike
cannibals, "Caribes", who used poisoned arrows. But reports of
that kind had for their motive the justification of slave-hunting
and we can not determine with exactitude just how much truth
there was in them. ~When SEDENO landed with his army on the
island in 1532, there were named only two large Indian provinces;
CarnuC14,rao, under the great war-chief Baucumar and Chacomar
under 1viarauna. 7 ) This great Indian war against the united tribes
of Trinidad under their war-chiefs, and which resulted in great
loss for the Spaniards, has only been equaled by one in South
1) FEWKES, Amer. Anthrop., N. S., Vol. I6, No.2, p. 202.
2) Ibid., p. 201-202.
3) Compo Ibid., p. 202-203.
4) LAS CASAS, Historia, Vol. 65, p. 322.
5) A. de 1., Vol. I, p. 383.
6) In the designation of the Spanish map already cited, it says that the Arawaks
inhabited eastern Trinidad.
') HERRERA, Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos, Madrid
I726 Dec. V, Book II, p. 26; CASTELLANOS, El. X, Canto I, p. 88. Castellanos
himself had remained some years at Trinidad, at the time of the Indian
war.
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