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nations werenear.
He told me all
he knew with
the greatest open-
ness imaginable.
I asked him the
names of the
several nations of
his sort of people,
but could get no
other name than
the Caribs ; from
whence I easily
understood that
these were the
Caribbees, which
our maps place
on the part of
America which
reaches from the
mouthof theriver
Orinoco to Gui-
ana, and onwards

 

to St. Martha. “WE NUMBERED THEM BY LAYING SO MANY STONES

He told me that aS

up a great way beyond the moon, that was, beyond the setting of
the moon, which must be west from their country, there dwelt
white bearded men like me, and pointed to my great whiskers,
which I mentioned before; and that they had killed much mans,
—that was his word. By all which I understood he meant the
Spaniards, whose cruelties in America had been spread over the
whole countries, and were remembered byall the nations from father
to son.

I inquired if he could tell me how I might come from this
island, and get among those white men. He told me, “ Yes, yes,
I might go in two canoe.” I could not understand what he
meant, or make him describe to me what he meant by two canoe,