ABSTRACT
THE West Indian Islands were at the time of their discovery occupied by two distinct races of Indians. The most warlike of these, called Caribbs, were not found in Jamaica. They mostly inhabited what are now known as the Windward Islands. The Bahama Islands, Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico, and Jamaica, were occupied by a far more gentle race: indeed, the smaller islands were once inhabited by the same people, but an incursion of the warlike Caribbs from South America destroyed the more effeminate tribes; and probably it was only the distance and extent of the larger islands that preserved them from the same fate.
