[41] im Thurn, p. 173. Joyce locates the original Caribs on the upper Xingu, from whence, he considers, they spread over Guiana and the lesser Antilles (South American Archæology, p. 256). Rodway, on the authority of Spanish chronicled Arawak information, suggests they were the original inhabitants of the north-west coast, migrant from Mexico (Guiana, pp. 41, 45).
[42] Ibid. pp. 171-2.
[43] Crevaux, Fleuves de l’Amérique du Sud, Yapura, F. 5 et 7.
[44] Crevaux, Vocabulaire français-roucouyenne.
[45] Koch-Grünberg, Journal de la Société des Américainistes de Paris, tome iii. No. 2 (1906).
[46] Koch-Grünberg, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xxxviii, 189.
[47] It must be remembered that I came to all these people from the Witoto country.
[48] Crevaux, Voyages dans l’Amérique du Sud, p. 368.
[49] Martius, Beiträge, ii. 340.
[50] The Inca were called Orejones by the Spaniards on account of the large studs they wore in the lobes of their ears. See Joyce, p. 110; Ratzel, ii. 172.