[Footnote 17: _Cuba, die Perle der Antillen_, p. 72. (Leipzig, 1831.) The vocabulary contains 33 words, “_aus dem Cubanischen_.” Many are incorrect both in spelling and pronunciation.] [Footnote 18: When Columbus returned from his first voyage, he brought with him ten natives from the Bay of Samana in Haiti, and a few from Guanahani.] [Footnote 19: See the remarks of Richardo in the Prologo to his _Diccionario Provincial_.] [Footnote 20: The remarks of Peter Martyr are; “posse omnium illarum linguam nostris literis Latinis, sine ullo discrimine, scribi compertum est,” (_De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe_, Decades Tres, p. 9.) “Advertendum est, nullam inesse adspirationem vocabulis corum, quae non habeat effectum literae consonantis; immo gravius adspirationem proferunt, quam nos f consonantem. Proferendumque est quicquid est adspiratum eodum halitu quo f, sed minime admoto ad superiores dentes inferiore labello, ore aut aperto ha, he hi, ho, hu, et concusso pectore. Hebraeos et Arabicos eodem modo suas proferre adspirationes vides,” (id. pp. 285, 286.)] [Footnote 21: There was a ball-ground in every village. It was “tres veces mas luenga que ancha, cercada de unos lomillos de un palmo o dos de alto.” The ball was “como las de viento nuestras mas no cuanto al salto, que era mayor que seis de las de viento.” (Las Casas, _Historia Apologetica_, caps. 46, 204.) Perhaps the ball was of India rubber.] [Footnote 22: “Gue ou Gui, signal de vocativo, mas so empregado pelos homems.” Dias _Diccionario da Lingua Tupy chamada Lingua Geral dos Indigenas do Brazil_, p. 60 (Lipsia, 1858).] [Footnote 23: _De Rebus Oceanicis_, p. 303.] [Footnote 24: _Hist. de las Indias_, lib. xvii. cap. 4, Las Casas denies the story, and says Oviedo told it in order to prejudice people against the natives (_Hist. Gen. de las Indias_, lib. iii. cap. xxiv). It is, however, probably true.] [Footnote 25: _Historia Apologetica_, cap. 198.] [Footnote 26: He compares the signification of _ita_ in Haytian to _ita_ in Latin, and translates the former _ita_ by _no se_; this is plainly an error of the transcriber for _yo se_ (_Hist. Apologetica_, cap. 241).] [Footnote 27: _Kuba_ in Arawack is the sign of past time and is used as a prefix to nouns, as well as a suffix to verbs. _Kubakanan_ ancestors, those passed away, those who lived in past times.]