ty of cape San Antonio was inhabited by
the "Guanataneys que son unos Indias como salvages." He expressly adds
that their clothing differed from that of the Mayas, and that the Cuban
natives with him could not understand the Maya language. _Historia
Verdadera_, cap. II.

[34] "Presso capite, fronte lata" (Nicolaus Syllacius, _De Insulis nuper
Inventis_, p. 86. Reprint, New York, 1859. This is the extremely rare
account of Columbus' second voyage). Six not very perfect skulls were
obtained in 1860, by Col. F. S. Heneken, from a cavern 15 miles
south-west from Porto Plata. They are all more or less distorted in a
discoidal manner, one by pressure over the frontal sinus, reducing the
calvaria to a disk. (J. Barnard Davis, _Thesaurus Craniorum_, p. 236,
London, 1867. Mr. Davis erroneously calls them Carib skulls).

[35] The provinces of Cuba are laid down on the _Mapa de la Isla de Cuba
segun la division de los Naturales_, por D. Jose Maria de la Torre y de
la Torre, in the _Memorias de la Sociedad Patriotica de la Habana_,
1841. See also Felipe Poey, _Geografia de la Isla de Cuba_, Habana,
1853. _Apendice sobre la Geografia Antigua._ Las Casas gives the five
provinces of Hayti by the names of their chiefs, Guarinox, Guacanagari,
Behechio, Caonabo and Higuey. For their relative position see the map in
Charlevoix's _Histoire de l'Isle San Domingue_, Paris, 1740, and in
Baumgarten's _Geschichte von Amerika_, B. II.

[36] This was Caonabo. Oviedo, and following him Charlevoix, say he was
a Carib, but Las Casas, who having lived twenty years in Haiti
immediately after the discovery, is infinitely the best authority, says:
"Era de nacion Lucayo, natural de las islas de los Lucayos, que se paso
de ellas aca." (_Historia Apologetica_, cap. 179, MSS[TN-17]).

[37] I put the figures very low. Peter Martyr, whose estimates are the
lowest of any writer, says there were more than 200,000 natives on Haiti
alone. (_De Rebus Oceanicis_, p. 295.)

[38] More than 40,000 were brought to Haiti to enjoy the benefits of
Christian instruction, says Herrera, with what might pass as a ghastly
sarcasm. (_Historia General de las Indias_, Dec. I, lib. VIII. cap. 3).

[39] _Brevissima Relacion de la Destruccion de las Indias Occidentales
par los Castellanos_, Sevilla, 1552.

[40] Ramon de de[TN-18] la Sagra, _Historia de la Isla de Cuba_, Tom. II,
p. 381.

[41] Ibid, p. 394.

[42] Ibid, p. 396.

[43] Ibid, p. 414.

[44] Ibid, p. 385. The