See, also, TEXAS: THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Cakchiquels. See below: QUICHES, and MAYAS. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Calusa. See below: TUMUQUANAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Cambas, or Campo, or Campa. See above: ANDESIANS; also, BOLIVIA: ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Cañares. See ECUADOR. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Canas. See PERU. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Canichanas. See BOLIVIA: ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. {82} AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Caniengas. See below: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Cariay. See below: GUCK OR COCO Group. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Caribs and their Kindred. "The warlike and unyielding character of these people, so different from that of the pusillanimous nations around them, and the wide scope of their enterprises and wanderings, like those of the nomad tribes of the Old World, entitle them to distinguished attention. ... The traditional accounts of their origin, though of course extremely vague, are yet capable of being verified to a great degree by geographical facts, and open one of the rich veins of curious inquiry and speculation which abound in the New World. They are said to have migrated from the remote valleys embosomed in the Apalachian mountains. The earliest accounts we have of them represent them with weapons in their hands, continually engaged in wars, winning their way and shifting their abode, until, in the course of time, they found themselves at the extremity of Florida. Here, abandoning the northern continent, they passed over to the Lucayos [Bahamas], and thence gradually, in the process of years, from island to island of that vast verdant chain, which links, as it were, the end of Florida to the coast of Paria, on the southern continent. The archipelago extending from Porto Rico to Tobago was their stronghold, and the island of Guadaloupe in a manner their citadel. Hence they made their expeditions, and spread the terror of their name through all the surrounding countries. Swarms of them landed upon the southern continent, and overran some parts of terra firma. Traces of them have been discovered far in the interior of that vast country through which flows the Oroonoko. The Dutch found colonies of them on the banks of the Ikouteka, which empties into the Surinam; along the Esquibi, the Maroni, and other rivers of Guayana; and in the country watered by the windings of the Cayenne." _W. Irving, Life and Voyages of Columbus, book 6, chapter 3 (volume 1)._