. The storied West Indies . ey. Notfar from Cape Haitien there is a great cave fromwhich, the natives fabled, issued the first pair ofcreatures in human shape that ever lived on theisland. Their priests (when they had any) werecalled butios, their national songs areitos fah-ray-ee-tos); their dances, or diumbas, they executed to the not much larger than a guinea pig, but the utia of Cuba is some-times found two feet in length, and of twelve pounds weight. 58 THE STORIED WEST INDIES music of cayvmbas and guiras (pronounced whe-ras),which primitive instruments are in use to-day, thelast-named be
. The storied West Indies . ey. Notfar from Cape Haitien there is a great cave fromwhich, the natives fabled, issued the first pair ofcreatures in human shape that ever lived on theisland. Their priests (when they had any) werecalled butios, their national songs areitos fah-ray-ee-tos); their dances, or diumbas, they executed to the not much larger than a guinea pig, but the utia of Cuba is some-times found two feet in length, and of twelve pounds weight. 58 THE STORIED WEST INDIES music of cayvmbas and guiras (pronounced whe-ras),which primitive instruments are in use to-day, thelast-named being merely a long gourd with scarifiedsurface, to evoke music from which a slenderstick is rubbed against it briskly. From these few citations it will be seen that theseignorant natives of the islands, discovered on thatfirst voyage to America, though they went about un-clothed, yet had a name for everything expressiveof its use or nature; and, what is more, have con-tributed somewhat to the enrichment of our The guira, upper and lower CHAPTEE VI THE CANNIBAL CAKIBS In the preceding chapters I have described atsome length the first voyage of Columbus to the NewWorld because it was so prolific in strange adven-tures, and resulted in so many new things the exist-ence of which had not even been suspected by thelearned of the Old World. But his second voyage,on which he started the 25th of September, 1493,I shall use (to adapt a well-worn simile) merely asa golden thread on which to string the pearls ofadventure. In the Life and Voyages of Columbus,by Washington Irving, may be found all details per-taining to his personality. My aim is to make appearreal and vivid the scenes not only of his cruisings andadventures, but those of others who followed afterhim—in their way equally interesting. With a fleet of fourteen caravels and three largecaracks containing nearly twelve hundred sailors,soldiers, cavaliers, priests, monks, and everythingnecessary for successfully p
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