The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-14

of cooking in pot, preparatory for
eating it.
THE difference between these Carib-
bees and the other Indians, with re-
spect to dress, consists in their wear
ing their hair very long, while the
others have it clipped irregularly; also,
because they engrave on their heads
innumerable cross-like marks and diff
ferent devices, each according to his
fancy; and they make these lasting
marks with sharpened bamboo sticks.
All of them, both the Caribbee and
other Indians, are beardless, so that
it is an unusual thing to find one OF
these men with a beard.
THE Caribbees whom we have taken
prisoners have their eyes and eyebrows
stained circularly around, which, I
think. they do for ostentation and also
because it gives them a feroclous ap-
pearance."
The letter, which the Smithsonian
and DR.. Ybarra have unearthed, goes
| on to contribute to the information
], concerning Columbus's second visit to
| the new world an account of the search
| for the settlement which was made on
| the initial trip to the West Indies.
AS every grammar school boy knows,
the great navigator, after discovering
San Salvador, cruised about for sew
eral weeks and came upon the islands
| which are now named Cuba and Hayti.
| To the latter he gave the name which
| is used in DR.. Chanca's document as
Hispaniola.
There, on the shoals, his largest YES
sci. the Santa Maria, was wrecked.
From the material of the ruined craft
he constructed a rude building for a
settlement, and Al daring spirits
agreed to remain, as evidence of the su-
preme sway of the Spanish Empire, I'M
til Columbus could return home, tell
his momentous news and make a
second visit. The Admiral supplied
the settlers with food, seed and tools,
and then babe them an affecting good
by.
On the occasion of this second jour
ney there was much anticipation of a
greeting to the small colony.
DR.. Chanca gives the best narrative
of the entrance of the fleet into the
harbor of Monte Cristo, as they called
it, which has ever appeared. He says:
This harbor is u leagues from the
!
! left bv the Admiral on his return to
| Spain from the first voyage, and I'M
der the protection of Guacamari, a
king of these Indians. who. / suppose,
| is one of the principal sovereigns of the
| island. After we anchored at said
spot the Admiral ordered two Iom-
! bards to he fired in order to see if
there was any response from the Chris
tians, who would fire in return as sa-
lutte, for they also had lombards with
them, but we received no reply, nor did
we see on the seashore anybody or any
sign of houses whatever.
Our people then became very much
Ichagrined, and began to realize what
the circumstances naturally suggested.
while all of us were in this depress-
| ed state of mind the same canoe, with
several Indians on board. which we
had seen that afternoon, came up to
where we were anchored, and the In
dams with loud voice inquired for
| the Admiral. They were conducted to
! the AdmiraTs vessel. and remained
there on board for three hours, talking
with the Admiral in the presence of us
all.
''They said that some of the Chris
tians left on the island had died of
disease. others had been killed in quar-
reIs among themselves, and that those
who remained were all well. They also
| said that that province had been invad-
/ ed by two Kings named CaOnabo and
| Mayreni, who burned all the houses,
land that King Guacamari was at an
iother place some distance away, lying
lin of a wound in his leg, which was
( the reason why he had not come in
| person.
/ Next morning some of our men land
1 ed bv order of the Admiral and went TO
/ the spot where the Christians had been
| housed. They found the building,
which had been fortified to a certain
degree by a paIisade surrounding it, all
burned up and Ieveled with the gorund.
They also found some rags and
lstuffs which the Indians had brought
| to set the fort and the houses in the
environs on fire. They observed, too,