[222-3] Las Casas, I. 434, says there never were any cannibals in Española.
[223-1] Las Casas, I. 434, says that a section in the northeastern part of Española “was inhabited by a tribe which called themselves Mazariges and others Ciguayos and that they spoke different languages from the rest of the island. I do not remember if they differed from each other in speech since so many years have passed, and to-day there is no one to inquire of, although I have talked many times with both generations; but more than fifty years have gone by.” The Ciguayos, he adds, were called so because they wore their hair long as women do in Castile. This passage shows that Las Casas was writing this part of his history a half-century after he went first to Española, which was in 1502, with Ovando.
[223-2] See [p. 226, note 4], under [Jan. 15].
[223-3] Porto Rico. (Navarrete.)
[223-4] Las Casas, I. 434, says that Guanin was not the name of an island, but the word for a kind of base gold.
[223-5] A gap in the original manuscript.
[224-1] Las Casas, I. 435, has, “and as word of a palm-tree board which is very hard and very heavy, not sharp but blunt, about two fingers thick everywhere, with which as it is hard and heavy like iron, although a man has a helmet on his head they will crush his skull to the brain with one blow.”
[224-2] “This was the first fight that there was in all the Indies and when the blood of the Indians was shed.” Las Casas, I. 436.
[225-1] Porto Rico. Navarrete says it is certain that the Indians called Porto Rico Isla de Carib.
[225-2] Probably Martinique or Guadeloupe. (Navarrete.)