Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

CHAPTER XXIX.

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Caribs: Domestic state--Treatment of their women--Children-- Their early tuition--Superstitious cruelties--Hatred of the Arrowawks--Female children--Occupation of the men--Canoes--Bows and arrows--Cottages--Cooking utensils--Native cloth--Food-- Fishing--Decoy fish--Spirituous liquors--Personal appearance-- Amusements--The Carib house--Extermination of the Caribs from Antigua--Remarks upon their history