CONTENTS OF PART III.

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I.	HISTORICAL SKETCH	90
	Struggles with Early Colonists	92
II.	WARLIKE LEGENDS.
	The Carib War-path	95
	The War on the Orinoco	99
III.	MYTHOLOGICAL LEGENDS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD	102
	1. The First People	103
	2. The First Cultivation	104
	3. The Rock and the Wood	106
IV.	LEGEND OF AMALIVACA	110
	LEGEND OF MANAROWA (1)	115
	LEGEND OF MANAROWA (2)	117
CONCLUSION		120

 The Caribs, when discovered by Columbus, were in possession of the smaller West Indian islands, and had begun to attack the larger.

 Of their origin nothing certain is known. Humboldt states that the opinion common amongst Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was that they came from the vicinity of Darien, and that more recently they were supposed to have come from the northern continent.

 But the constant tradition of the Caribs themselves, both in the islands and on the main, claims Guiana as the cradle of their race, and the Orinoco as the point from which they started on their career of conquest.

 A comparison of their language with that of the Orinoco Tamanacs, and with that of the Chaymas to the north of that river, will confirm, as far as language can, the truth of their tradition.