Crossword-Solution: CARIBBEANS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

These, the natives of Haiti had told him, were full of gold; at least, that is how Columbus interpreted the signs the Haitians made when he asked for gold; and so, instead of hurrying to cheer up those forty men he left at La Navidad, he steered to a point considerably south of Haiti and reached the Caribbeans precisely; which, it will be seen, was a far greater test of nautical skill than merely to sail anywhere into the west, as he had done on the first voyage.

Hammocks of netting, earthenware dishes, and woven cotton cloth were found; but along with these rudiments of civilization something else was found that made the Europeans look at each other in horror-- human bones left from a recent feast! The next day they landed at a different island, for these Caribbeans all lie close together.

These cattle might be paid for with _slaves_ taken from among the Caribbeans, who are a wild people fit for any work, well built and very intelligent; and who, when they have got rid of the cruel habits to which they have been accustomed, will be better than any other kind of slaves." Horrible, all this, we say, but it was the fifteenth century.

She was an uncommon woman, with a pushing mind, and exhibited as “The Princess Popocatapetl, Lineal Descendant of Montezuma and Queen of the Caribbeans.” Flannagan engaged Bill to exhibit as “The Fat Boy,” and he was very successful in this way, weighing two hundred, and in height four feet eight inches, though thirty to forty years old.

Now, as to the heathen, some of them, like the Caribbeans, could be--and by Spanish methods, they were--exterminated.