The word _Carib_ is frequently applied by the Spanish population to any wild tribe, merely in the sense of savage or wild. Thus on the upper Usumacinta the Lacandons, a people of pure Maya stock, are so called by the whites; on the Musquito coast the uncivilized Ulvas of the mountains are referred to as Caribs. There are a large number of pure and mixed Caribs, probably five or six thousand, in British Honduras near Trujillo, but they do not belong to the original population. They were brought there from the island of St. Vincent in 1796 by the British authorities. Many of them have the marked traits of the negro through a mingling of the races, and are sometimes called “Black Caribs.” The Rev. Alexander Henderson, who has composed a grammar and dictionary of their dialect, gives them the name _Karifs_, a corruption of Carib, and is the term by which they call themselves. That portion of Honduras known as the Musquito coast derived its name, not from the abundance of those troublesome insects, but from a native tribe who at the discovery occupied the shore near Blewfield Lagoon. They are an intelligent people, short in stature, unusually dark in color, with finely cut features, and small straight noses--not at all negroid, except where there has been an admixture of blood. They number about six thousand, many of whom have been partly civilized by the efforts of missionaries, who have reduced the language to writing and published in it a number of works. The Tunglas are one of the sub-tribes of the Musquitos. On the head-waters of the streams which empty along the Musquito coast reside the numerous tribes of the _Ulvas_, called by the English _Smoos_. These are dark, but lighter in color than the Musquitos, and are much ruder and more savage. The custom of flattening the head prevails among them, and as their features are not handsome at the best, and as they are much afflicted with leprous diseases, they are by no means an attractive people. THE ULVA LINGUISTIC STOCK. _Bulbuls_, see _Poyas_. _Carchas_ or _Cukras_, on Rio Meco above Matlack Falls. _Cocos_, on Rio Coco. _Micos_, on Rio Mico. _Parrastahs_, on Rio Mico. _Pantasmas_, on upper basin of Rio Coco. _Melchoras_, on Rio de los Ramas. _Siquias_, on upper Rio Mico. _Smoos_, see _Woolwas_. _Subironas_, on Rio Coco. _Twakas_, at San Blas and on Rio Twaka. _Woolwas_, _Ulvas_, _Smoos_, on head-waters of Blewfield river. The _Ramas_, described as men of herculean stature and strength, with a language of their own, reside on a small island in Blewfield Lagoon. Toward the mountains near the head-waters of Black River, are the _Payas_, also alleged to be a separate stock. But unfortunately we have no specimens of these tongues.[216]