rings of gold and ſilver, to a conſiderable value. Their entertaiments, on theſe occaſions, are alſo very expenſive, their gueſts being treated with every thing of the beſt. Theſe meetings ſometimes laſt for two or three days together, during which they dance the whole time almoſt; but it ſeldom happens that their balls conclude without broken heads, bloody noſes, or ſome piece of perfect gallantry.
The Indians, natives of Dominica, are deſcended from the ancient inhabitants, who were found there when this iſland was firſt diſcovered by Europeans, and are the people properly called "Caribbes." Of theſe there are not more than twenty or thirty families, who have their dwellings on the eaſt part of the iſland, at a great diſtance from Roſeau, where they are ſeldom ſeen.
