[Footnote 34: “Presso capite, fronte lata” (Nicolaus Syllacius, _De Insulis nuper Inventis_, p. 86. Reprint, New York, 1859. This is the extremely rare account of Columbus’ second voyage). Six not very perfect skulls were obtained in 1860, by Col. F. S. Heneken, from a cavern 15 miles south-west from Porto Plata. They are all more or less distorted in a discoidal manner, one by pressure over the frontal sinus, reducing the calvaria to a disk. (J. Barnard Davis, _Thesaurus Craniorum_, p. 236, London, 1867. Mr. Davis erroneously calls them Carib skulls).] [Footnote 35: The provinces of Cuba are laid down on the _Mapa de la Isla de Cuba segun la division de los Naturales_, por D. Jose Maria de la Torre y de la Torre, in the _Memorias de la Sociedad Patriotica de la Habana_, 1841. See also Felipe Poey, _Geografia de la Isla de Cuba_, Habana, 1853. _Apendice sobre la Geografia Antigua._ Las Casas gives the five provinces of Hayti by the names of their chiefs, Guarinox, Guacanagari, Behechio, Caonabo and Higuey. For their relative position see the map in Charlevoix’s _Histoire de l’Isle San Domingue_, Paris, 1740, and in Baumgarten’s _Geschichte von Amerika_, B. II.] [Footnote 36: This was Caonabo. Oviedo, and following him Charlevoix, say he was a Carib, but Las Casas, who having lived twenty years in Haiti immediately after the discovery, is infinitely the best authority, says: “Era de nacion Lucayo, natural de las islas de los Lucayos, que se pasó de ellas aca.” (_Historia Apologetica_, cap. 179, MSS[TN-17]).] [Footnote 37: I put the figures very low. Peter Martyr, whose estimates are the lowest of any writer, says there were more than 200,000 natives on Haiti alone. (_De Rebus Oceanicis_, p. 295.)] [Footnote 38: More than 40,000 were brought to Haiti to enjoy the benefits of Christian instruction, says Herrera, with what might pass as a ghastly sarcasm. (_Historia General de las Indias_, Dec. I, lib. VIII. cap. 3).] [Footnote 39: _Brevissima Relacion de la Destruccion de las Indias Occidentales par los Castellanos_, Sevilla, 1552.] [Footnote 40: Ramon de de[TN-18] la Sagra, _Historia de la Isla de Cuba_, Tom. II, p. 381.] [Footnote 41: Ibid, p. 394.] [Footnote 42: Ibid, p. 396.] [Footnote 43: Ibid, p. 414.] [Footnote 44: Ibid, p. 385. These references to De la Sagra’s work are all to the original documents in his Appendix.]