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CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES.
found a nest containing two coffee-colored eggs. It was built right in the center of a great parasite, a plant with broad leaves resembling those of the symplocarpus, attached to the stem of a tree, about four feet from the ground. A humming-bird or two dashed past us, and falling seeds, as we entered a tract of high trees, warned us that there were wood-pigeons in the leafy tops above us. All around was strewn a sweet fruit, like a yellow plum, called " penny-apiece," which is much enjoyed by the negroes and by the birds and agoutis. My friend stooped, pointed to some impressions of feet in the moist earth, and whispered, " Haginamah." They were tracks of the armadillo, though the black had designated them by a name unknown to me ; it had a Carib flavor to it. So I asked him if "' haginamail" was a name for the armadillo, and he replied that it was ; " Haginamah and tatou same with arm'dilla, sah." Here was a discovery — an animal that retained its original Carib appellation. In Grenada the Caribs once maintained supreme control; they were fierce, and a terror to the inhabitants of the continent, upon whose coasts they often descended. At the northern end of Grenada is a high bluff, descending to the sea in a precipice, over which, tradition relates, the last of the Caribs leaped in despair when pursued by their enemies. The cliff is yet known as the Hill of the Leapers —Le Morne, des Sauteurs. It rejoiced me to find, as I thought, a pure Carib name, handed down among the people of an island from which the Caribs themselves had been extinct a century ; but my pleasure was suddenly checked ;