Petroglyphs of Grenada and a recently discovered petroglyph in StVincent . ; it is more probablethat they represent the culture of formeroccupants of the island. Were examplesknown to have been made by the same peo-ple found on the mainland, it would bepossible to proceed a step farther by a pro-cess of comparison, but, unfortunately, thisis not so. With the exception of minorsimilarities of conventional heads and fig-ures, the West Indian examples appear torepresent a distinct type. We think thatthe contention that they are pre-Carib issupported by the known facts. Humboldt^states that the Ca
Petroglyphs of Grenada and a recently discovered petroglyph in StVincent . ; it is more probablethat they represent the culture of formeroccupants of the island. Were examplesknown to have been made by the same peo-ple found on the mainland, it would bepossible to proceed a step farther by a pro-cess of comparison, but, unfortunately, thisis not so. With the exception of minorsimilarities of conventional heads and fig-ures, the West Indian examples appear torepresent a distinct type. We think thatthe contention that they are pre-Carib issupported by the known facts. Humboldt^states that the Caribs, in the 16th century,extended from the Virgin Islands on thenorth to the mouth of the Orinoco, perhapsto the Amazon. He also says that thoseon the continent admit that the small WestIndian islands were recently inhabited byArawaks, a warlike nation yet existing onthe main. They assert that the Arawaks,except the women, were exterminated bythe Caribs who came from the mouth ofthe Orinoco. Rocheford^ and Brinton^give similar testimony. This position is I INDIAN NOTES. CARIB INVASION 149 considerably strengthened by the fact that,when St Kitts was discovered, the womenspoke a different language from that of themen, from which fact it is conjectured thatthe males represented the invaders, and thefemales the previous inhabitants, the suppo-sition being that the Carib had extermi-nated the men and taken the women astheir wives. To account for the persistenceof two languages, it has been said that thefemales were the slaves of the men and thatthere was very little actual association be-tween the two sexes. This theory does notsatisfactorily explain the existence of thiscondition over an extended period of a few generations, at the longest, thewomen would have adopted the language ofthe men. Hence it follows that the Caribinvasion must have taken place, so far asSt Kitts is concerned, and this probablyapphes to the more southerly islands inlesser degree, a short time befor
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