Until 1895, but few remains had been discovered to testify to the existence of a tribe which not so very long ago lived by gathering the fruits of the land and sea of Jamaica. During that and the following years several collections of Indian remains were found.[2] They are scattered fairly throughout the island, except curiously enough, the eastern end, and are thickly grouped in St. Andrew and Vere, in St. Ann, and in the west end of Westmoreland. They all supply objects similar in character and giving evidence of no very high advance in civilization or the arts; being considerably below those of Mexico and Peru. The objects consist for the most part of petaloid or almond-shaped polished celts of metamorphic or igneous rocks, found somewhat abundantly all over the island; circular or oval, shallow, unglazed bowls of baked pottery, with but crude ornamentation, used in the preparation of food, and some as mortuary vessels for the heads of their chiefs—found here and there in the caves and on the sites of dwellings; calcedony beads, hitherto found, curiously enough, only in Vere; stone and wooden images and rock-carvings and the rock-pictures; and a few shell and flint implements and mealing-stones rarely found. Footnote 2: For this subject consult “Aboriginal Indian Remains in Jamaica. By J. E. Duerden, A.R.C.Sc., Kingston, Ja., 1897.” It is to be regretted that many of the objects shown at an exhibition of native remains held at the Institute of Jamaica in 1895, following on the discovery of the Halberstadt cave, as well as others discovered later, should have been allowed to leave the island. Such things once lost can rarely be regained. Some of the early Spanish historians—putting as they frequently did X for J—wrote the name of the island _Xaymaca_, but it appears in its present form as early as 1511 in Peter Martyr’s “Decades.” He called it _Jamaica_ and _Jamica_. The island is unnamed in Juan de la Cosa’s map of 1500. Its first appearance in cartography is on the map made by Bartolommeo Colombo, Columbus’s younger brother, to illustrate the admiral’s fourth voyage, where it is spelled _Jamaicha_. In Cantino’s map (1502–04) it appears as _Jamaiqua_: in Caneiro as _Jamaiqua_ and in Waldseemüller’s map of 1507 as _Jamaiana_. In the so-called Admiral’s map of 1507 it appears as _Jamaqua_: the name does not appear in Ruysch’s map of 1508, but in the Ptolemaeus edition, Strasburg 1513, it is given as _Jamaiqua_, and in the Waldseemüller map of 1516 it is also _Jamaiqua_.