ABSTRACT
Alphonso stood to the westward, and arrived at Canchieta in November. The natives would not part with their pearls, and had but little gold : he therefore coasted along to the westward, where the inhabitants came armed to the shore; and not daring to land, he returned to the more friendly tribes. Upon the passage, an army of Caribs, in eighteen canoes, attacked him, but fled when they heard and felt the effect of the fire-arms. One canoe was taken, with two men on board: the one a prisoner, bound, and
lying in the bottom of the boat; who made the Spaniards understand, that six of his companions had been devoured, and that it was his turn next. When told to do what he pleased with the Carib, he beat his brains out with the cannibal's own club. In Paria, the natives trafficked with squares of salt, and preserved the dead bodies of their caziques, by drying them over a slow fire.
