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  • Cannibal too bears the traces of civil strife, and it remains a contested term among anthropologists.56 The word derives from the Spanish Canibales, a form of the name Caribes, and dates from the voyage of Columbus, who characterized and perhaps mischaracterized the Caribs, inhabitants of the islands in the Caribbean, as man-eaters.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Cannibal too bears the traces of civil strife, and it remains a contested term among anthropologists.56 The word derives from the Spanish Canibales, a form of the name Caribes, and dates from the voyage of Columbus, who characterized and perhaps mischaracterized the Caribs, inhabitants of the islands in the Caribbean, as man-eaters.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • “These newly discovered man-eaters, so greedy of human flesh, are called Caribes or Cannibals,” * says Anghiera, in the third decade of his Oceanica, dedicated to Pope Leo

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • "These newly discovered man-eaters, so greedy of human flesh, are called Caribes or Cannibals," * says Anghiera, in the third decade of his Oceanica, dedicated to Pope Leo X. (* Edaces humanarum carnium novi helluones anthropophagi, Caribes alias Canibales appellati.)

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • The word "Caribbean" is derived from the name of the supposedly aggressive tribe of Amerindians who were called 'Caribes' and were equated by Columbus, mistakenly, to

    Stabroek News 2010

  • The Caribes were wiping out the Arawaks in the Antilles before the Spanish got there.

    Matthew Yglesias » Checkpoint Kabul 2010

  • They used "Chiles Caribes" and another chile I can't remember but I suggest Chawa Chiles and "Guera" or yellow chiles - that sort of thing.

    La Ruta del Sabor 2005

  • [8] _Caribes_, in Spanish, sometimes means the Carib people; here, simply savages.

    Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918

  • Indians: "Relatio Gestorum a primis Praedicatorum missionariis in insulis Americanis ditionis gallicae praesertim apud Indos indigenas quos Caribes vulgo dicunt ab anno 1634 ad annum 1643" (MSS).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • He, however, began to talk of those of Caniba, whom they call Caribes.

    The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

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