Dominica - The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands - page 79

[1] Out of respect to the Lord's Day, the Carib island of Wy-tou-koubouli was promptly pricked down in
the chart as Dominica.
[2] Arawaks are still to be found in British Guiana. It was the early reports of the pristine innocence of the
Indians of the isles that inspired Montaigne and many subsequent writers with the idealized abstraction
of the gentle savage.
[3] Poor Las Casas's alternative—the importation of Negroes from Africa—was the pretext for the first
shipment of black slaves and the cause of all the subsequent sorrows of the Caribbean. He soon bitterly
repented his suggestion.
[4] Of exactly the same kind as that practised today.
[5] Histoire Naturelle des Antilles de l'Amerique , Rotterdam, 1658.
[6] See The Caribs of Dominica , by Douglas Taylor (Bureau of American Ethnology, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington). King George Frederick verified almost every detail in this work, and knew
the author well. Mr. Taylor, who is married to a Carib, is certainly the best living authority on this race.