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Show The Last of the Caribs. The Carib Indian was the first representative rep-resentative of Lo the poor red man to meet the tide of European travel. He was the one found by Columbus and the later Spanish explorers in the West Indies, and he 1ms given the Caribbean sea his name. Thus he is assured a monument as long as geography shall hist, and he needs it, because as a living race he has practically disappeared. disap-peared. How many thousands of Caribs dwelt iu the West Indies in 1492 is largely a niator of conjecture. They quickly began to die out under the hand of the conqueror, who worked them as slaves, and shot them when they made war. Today it is doubtful whether there are a hundred pure-blooded pure-blooded Caribs alive. Practically all of them live on the British, island of Dominica, on a reservation set apart for them called Salybia. |