. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . ture than others, and well built. Incommercial subtlety they imitate the Mexi-cans. They wear cotton garments of extremefineness and a great quantity of gold of all de-grees of fineness. Like the Bruncas, they sac-rificed persons of other races to their gods andthe spirits of their parents. They possessedmuch skill in the art of working gold and hidtheir jewels, as they valued them highly. Thewild hog and other wild animals were domesti-cated, among them the tapir, the meat of whichwas much esteemed by them, and the wild singing, d
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . ture than others, and well built. Incommercial subtlety they imitate the Mexi-cans. They wear cotton garments of extremefineness and a great quantity of gold of all de-grees of fineness. Like the Bruncas, they sac-rificed persons of other races to their gods andthe spirits of their parents. They possessedmuch skill in the art of working gold and hidtheir jewels, as they valued them highly. Thewild hog and other wild animals were domesti-cated, among them the tapir, the meat of whichwas much esteemed by them, and the wild singing, dancing and drunkenness they foundtheir greatest pleasure. The other branch of the Caribs, the Viceitas,occupied the territory of Talamanca and thecoasts of the Atlantic from the Matina River tothe country of the Guaymis, situated opposite toand to the east of the island of the Escudo deVeragua. The inhabitants of the little villageof Cariay, discovered by Columbus in 1502, be- • Ricardo Fernández Guardia—Cartas de Juan Vázquez deCoronado, p. Ancient Stone fok Gkindinq ^Iai/.e. <»n thift piece of earved granite the Gnetares ground tiieir inaizo at the reliiiioiisfestivals of llie liarvest season. One of llie most imi)ortaiit relies of the Ainericauubori^iues, now in National Mnseuni of Costa liica. (Ihoto. Uóiuez.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 15 longed to this race. Later the Spaniards calledthem Tariacas, or Cariacas,-^ names analo-gous to the name Cariay, and all three analogousto the name Caraibs, or Caribs.^ It may be as-sumed that these Caribs of Talamanca and ofthe Atlantic httoral immigrated to Costa Ricasubsequently to their brothers, the Guetares,from whom they differed but httle. They wereextremely bellicose and constantly at war, tosuch a degree indeed that the Spaniards, in spiteof vigorous and repeated endeavors, were neverable to reduce them to a state of permanent sub-mission, or to found within their territory any en-during settlement. However, though
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