New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-11

Caribs, another cross OF the Indian and negro
involuntary emgrants within the last sixty years
from ST. Vincents TO Honduras-who, by their
good qualities and rapid increase Of numbers,
afford perfect contrast to the Mosquitoes. OF this
interesting peOple-who were only compelled by
the English to abandon their homes 10 St. Vincent
after desperate and bloody resistance, which
ended in their deportation in 1895 TO Honduras
Mr. squier copies from Young an Englishman
who resided among them, the following curious
account:
They are peacesble, friendly, ingenious, and indus
trious. They are noted for their iondness for dre-
wearing red bands around their waists 70 initiate
sashes straw hats knowingly turned up, clean white
shirts and frOcks, long and tight rowsers, and. with
umbrella or cane in hand have air OF great sasfac
ton with themselves. The Canb women are fond of
onamenting their persons with cOloed beads strung in
various form. When bringing the products Of their
plantations for sale, they appear dressed in calico
bodices and Evely-patterDed skIrts, with handker-
chief tied around their heads and suffered TO fall neg
ligently behind. . The Carbs cannot be con-
sidered handsome race, but they are hardy and
athletic. The difference in their color Is remarkable
some being cOaloack and Others nearly az yellow a.
saffron. They scrupulou-y clean, and have
great aptitude for acquiring languages most Of them
being able TO talk in Canb, Spanish and English;
some even add Creole French and Mosquito.
Polygamy Is general among them, some OF them hay-
ing a. many a. three or four wives but the husband
is compelled to have separate house ard plantation
for each and if he make one present, he must make
the other Of the same value; and he must also
divide bis time equally among them-a week with one
O week with another and 20 on. When Carlb takes
a wife, he fels plantation and builds house the
wife then takes the management and be becomes
gentleman at large until the following year, when
another plantation has to be cleared. The wife at
tends these plantations with great care, perseverance
and skill and the of twelve or fifteen months
has every description of bread-kind in among them;
and as the products are entirely her own, she only
keeps sufficient at home for her husband and family
and dispOses of the rest to purchase clothes and other
neccssaTes. just before Christmas the women engage
several creers, freight them with nee, beans, vans,
plantains &c, for Truxilo and Baze and hire their
husbands and Others sailors. II IL the CUSTOM when
a cannot do all the work required on planta-
ton for Ter 10 hire her husband and pay him ftr0
dollars per reek. Tie women travel considerable
distances TO their plantations and carry their produc
tons in a kind of wcker-basket. have known them
walk from far beyond Mcnkey-appe town to Fort
Wellington, a distance of forty miles, to exchange
their baskets of provisions for salt, calico, &c. Men
accompany them their trading excursions, bat
never, by any chance carry the burdens, thinking 1t
far beneath them. In the dry seasons, the women
collect fire wood which they stack in sheltered places
to be ready for the wet nOrths. Industry and fore
thought are peculiar traits OF character in Caub
women, quently they easily surround themselves
with necessarics and comforts. The can hew and
plant hunt ard fish, erect comfortable house, build
good boat make the saiis, &C. Some capital
tailors, and Others good carpenters altogether
there cannot be O more useful body OF men. They
often 90 to the various mahogany works around
Roman River, Limas River Truxillo or Balize, and
hire themselves mahogany cutters, for which, by
their strength and activity they well fitted They
hire for five or six months, sometimes longer for eight
TO twelve dollars per month and Tations. have
known some CARDS of superior manual power, and
who understood the whole routine OF mahogany-cu-
ting, obtain a. much fifteen TO sixteen dollars a
month. On the expiration Of their engagement they
return to their homes, laden with useful articles and
invariably well dressed.
The CARDS grow the Bourbon sugar-cane, and they
declare that the soil is well adapted for s cutvation
/ have myself il sixteen feet in hight, and thick
III proportion, from the plantation of Capt Samboler
at Zachary Lyon River. Tobacco Is now grown in
small quantities by the CARDS, and also by the Nos.
quans at PatOOk, but they have not yet discovered
the proper method of drying the tobacco of the one
tribe tastes like dried bay and that OF the other 80
strong TO occasion bad symptoms 10 those unaccus
toned to its
The Carib houses are all exceedingly we'll built, the
posts being of iron-wood, subah, &C. the rafters and
beams Of Santa Maria the thach, swalow-tail or ca
hoon and waited with cabbage boards; they have
apertures made for windows with shutters, which are
closed in the evening with much care, TO prevent the
admission Of the land wind. The Ca1b houses beng
open to the sea breeze and always closed against the
land wind, is doubt the main reason OF the heath
ness of their towns. Much, however IL attributable
to their cleanliness and the plenty in which they live
The old people supported by their sons OF other
relatives aud are treated and spoken OF with much
respect-the children seeming 10 vie with each other
in testifyng their affection At every Carb town nu
merous pigs and fowls belonging to the women, are
unfortunately running about. These hogs when
iattened sent to Truxo and other places tor sale
A sketch of the route of the proposed Railroad
forms the subject of Mr.. Squier's fourteenth chap
ter The two next chapters contain an account OF
the Republic of San Salvador the smallest bat
most densely populated and most fourshng OF the
Central American States, and the account OF which
as given by Mr.. Squier himself, affords complete
refutaton of his doctrine that the Central American
population is incapable of taking care ofitseli.
Among the miscellaneous notes with which the
work concludes is one on the Mosquito shore, and
another on "the Bay Islands" the recent erection
of which into British colony is one OF the points
in controversy between us and the English, grow
ing out of the CLAY tom Bulwer Treaty. The right
of Honduras TO these islands, and indeed to the
Mosquito shore, is argued by Mr. Squier with
warmth of Indignation against British encroach-
ments not very consistent with his fayorte project
of a general occupation of the whole OF Central
America bya grand fbustering expedition from
the United States.
On the whole, the publication of this book is
reasonable; and in spite of objections to some
of IFS theories and objects, accept it as a
valuable contribution toward the knowledge OF the
| litte-known regions of which it treats, and as TO
which a special interest and curiosity are excited
| by current political events.
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