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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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most valiant, and interesting of thoseprimitive races whom the Europeansdiscovered on their arrival at the insularand continental parts of our continents.Columbus first found them at PortoRico, and in the Lesser Antilles. Theywere able to offer a more serious resist-ance to Spanish enterprise and progressthan any other of the native nations. One of the hard questions in modernethnography has been the proper fix-ing of the Carib stem into the generalscheme representing the American Mon-goloids. The characteristics of the peo-ple seem in many particulars to allythem with the Red Indian races ofNorth America, but in other particulars 558 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. they would seem to be the congeners ofthe Central Americans and the Andeanraces of South America. The Caribs were regarded by the other West Indians as a people apart from themselves. They The Caribs the cannibals par were dreaded on account of excellence. ,-, -1-1 i their warlike and aggres-sive dispositions. They it was who ter-
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WOMEN OF GUIANA—TYPES.Drawn by Barbant. rifled the other West Indian tribes, andastounded the Spaniards with the prac-tice of their cannibalism. They wereman-eaters par excellence, practicingtheir anthropophagous horrors withoutblush or shame. It was in the Caribhuts that the Spaniards found thosehuman butcher-benches from which the market in man flesh was supplied in aregular and businesslike way, mostshocking to the instincts of all the racesexcept those who practiced this horriblemethod of subsistence. The Carib wasthe cannibal, and the cannibal was theCarib. It is possible that this race was de-I scended from the Indians of NorthAmerica, and that carib affinity thelineofetlmicde-l2erfc0arn?n-scent should be drawn aians. southward through Florida by wayof Cuba and Santo Domingo tothe coast of South America at themouth of the Orinoco. Or it maybe possible that the true lineshould be drawn in the oppositedirection, and be derived ultimate-ly from that Polynesian Mongoloidstem which

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