Petroglyphs of Grenada and a recently discovered petroglyph in StVincent . he islands. For manyyears the natives were left in undisturbedpossession. An attempt to colonize the island wasmade by an English Company of Merchantsin 1609, which ended disastrously on accountof the continued and bitter opposition of theinhabitants. Before the close of the yearthey were compelled to return to England. In 1638 a Frenchman named Poincyendeavored to make a landing, but wasdriven off by the Carib. Twelve years later, in 1650, MonsieursHouel and Du Parquet, shareholders of theFrench Company of the Islands
Petroglyphs of Grenada and a recently discovered petroglyph in StVincent . he islands. For manyyears the natives were left in undisturbedpossession. An attempt to colonize the island wasmade by an English Company of Merchantsin 1609, which ended disastrously on accountof the continued and bitter opposition of theinhabitants. Before the close of the yearthey were compelled to return to England. In 1638 a Frenchman named Poincyendeavored to make a landing, but wasdriven off by the Carib. Twelve years later, in 1650, MonsieursHouel and Du Parquet, shareholders of theFrench Company of the Islands of America,purchased Grenada from the company. DuParquet landed in June of that year with afollowing of two hundred men, the Caribnot opposing the landing, probably becausethey were overawed by the strength of theforce which accompanied him, or it may bethat they were influenced by the trinketsand liberal presents bestowed upon du Terte states that the island wasfairly ceded by the natives themselves to theFrench nation in lawful purchase for some INDIAN NOTES. CO I Q. > O o oc I- UJQ. I occ H- zo HISTORY 145 knives and hatchets and a large quantity ofglass beads, besides two bottles of whiskeyfor the chief. ^ In all probability they didnot understand the nature of the agree-ment. After the appointment of a relativenamed Le Compte, to govern the island, DuParquet left, in February 1651. It wasthen that the Carib began hostilities. Thecolony effectually protected itself againstthe onslaughts of the savages. The laststand of the Carib was on a precipice, at theextreme north of the island, called by theinvaders, in memory of the tragedy thereenacted, Le Morne des Sauteurs, or theLeapers Hill. Abbe Labat^ gives the fol-lowing description of the incident: The savages, on being hard-pressed, retiredto the summit of a small promontory, which wassurrounded by frightful precipices, and access-ible only by a narrow and difficult path, theopening to which they had been extrem
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