The American Nations, Vol. I.: Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South AmericaRafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
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The American Nations, Vol. I.: Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
Indians; Indians -- Origin; Taino Indians; Taino language
This positive fact begins the certain chronology of the Antilles; but
Brigstock is quite wrong in deeming these fugitives, the ancestors of all
the Carib and Galibis tribes as far as Brazil.
_56th Event._ Civil wars in Hayti, attempt of some kings to become
independent from the _Bohitos_ government. The Cazic _Guamaretus_ despise
his god or Zemi _Corochotum_, for which he is overcome in battle and his
palace burnt. Dangleria.
This indicates probably a revolution, and attempt to overthrow the ancient
religion, perhaps before 1150.
_57th Event._ CAZI-BAQUEL restores peace, and the worship of the great God
_Jocavaghama_, with the Zemi _Tarugavael_ found in the woods. Meantime the
god JOCAVA prophecies by an oracle that the _Maguacochios_ (great people
clothed) would come, with fire and thunder to destroy or enslave the
rebellious Haytians. This was understood to apply to the Caribs, and
Spaniards afterwards.(80)
_58th Event._ This great king BAQUEL, begins a dynasty, and has many
successors _Gamanacoel_, _Guarionel_, _Guayaronel_, _Guavanenechin_,
_Guavavo-conel_, _Caramarex_, _Guaramatex &c._, who are the chief kings of
Hayti. _Guarionex_ was his successor when the Spaniards came.
The ancestors of Guarionex had been kings or cazics from time immemorial
in the great kingdom and valley of Maguana, 180 miles long and 30 broad,
running from east to west; having from east to west the provinces
Canobocoa, Hubabo, Cayaba, Maricoa, Bainoa. The river Bahuan runs through
it, which is probably the same as Bahaboni, where settled the Guaninis.
They appear to have been at the head of the feodal system of Cazics and
Tainos established in Hayti. All the other kings bearing them allegiance:
and their dialect was the court language.
_59th Event._ The island becomes divided into 5 principal kingdoms, with
many provinces each having a Cazic. They were 1. _Caizimu_ in the east
with 11 provinces, Higuey was the first of them, 2. _Bainoa_ in the
centre, the largest of all, belonging to the _Baquel_ dynasty, with 24
provinces, Maguana being the first of them, 3. _Guacarima_, the west end,
with 12 provinces, Xaragua being the main, 4. _Hubaba_, a small kingdom
with 3 provinces in the south mountains, 5. _Cotoy_ or _Cayabo_ in the
mountains of the north, held by the _Mayoriex_ people, with 7 provinces,
and the mountains Zibao.
Dangleria gives the names of all these provinces, but he has omitted the
kingdom of _Marien_ in the north-west, he makes it only a province of
Bainoa. Laet, Charlevoix and Munoz have given maps of old Hayti, with the
situations of many, the rivers, towns, islands, mountains, lakes &c.; see
my Ancient Geography of the Antilles.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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