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With respect to the etymology of the word cannibal, it seems to me entirely cleared up by the discovery of the journal kept by Columbus during his first voyage of discovery, and of which Bartholomew de las Casas has left us an abridged copy. Some call them canibas; but in Spanish they are called caribs.
It was evident that baiting their autocrat had become the favorite diversion of Fort Canibas' voters that day. "Perhaps it was all right once for politicians to lead people by the nose, but it ain't all right now," stated Niles, as soon as he had squirmed into a favorable position for attack. "People didn't know, once.
For" she smiled more broadly, and there was malice in her eyes "I sent word to him to come, and he's coming." "You sent word to him, you red-headed Irish cat? What do you mean?" The lord of Fort Canibas strode close to her, passion on his face. Presson could see that this was no suddenly evoked quarrel between the two. It was hostility reawakened.
And no one in the State was politically more sagacious than Thelismer Thornton, who had seen men come and seen men go, and knew all their moods and fancies. On the morning that the State chairman hurried out of Fort Canibas he discussed the matter of the rival candidates with the old man that is to say, he talked and Thornton listened.
"I don't stand for Niles and his monkey business," protested Davis. "I'm on a different platform. All is, we propose to be represented from now on; not mis-represented!" Something like stupefaction succeeded the anger in the countenance of the Duke of Fort Canibas. Again he made careful scrutiny of the faces of his constituents.
It was silent at the front of the big house, and in that silence the three of them could hear the occasional shouts that greeted demagogic oratory down in the village. The comment of the lord of Canibas was the anathema that he growled to himself. His grandson faced him twice on his turns along the porch, protest in his demeanor. But the old man brushed past.
He lighted a fresh cigar out-of-doors. "Luke," he declared quietly between puffs, "this is developing into quite a caucus day take all trimmings. I'm glad you are here to look on!" The town house of Fort Canibas needed no guide-board that day. All roads led to it. Thelismer Thornton walked down the main street, his following at his heels.
The Duke of Fort Canibas could not distinguish adherents from foes at that moment, when all faces were masked with deep attention. His eyes came back to the stubborn spokesman. "Walt Davis," he said, "your grandfather put my name before the caucus that nominated me for the legislature fifty years ago, and your father and you have voted for me ever since.
Wood says that although there were then at Aukpaque Indians of three different tribes, Micmacs, Maliseets and Caribous, they all understood the Micmac language, and he expresses regret that he had not been sent among them two years before, being satisfied that he could have gained their confidence and good will. Probably Canibas or Kennebec Indians.
And yet, when he was at last in his room at the hotel that night, he wrote to Clare Kavanagh the longest letter of all those he had written to her since he left Fort Canibas. It might have been because he had so much to write about. It might have been because a strange little feeling of compunction bothered him. But Harlan did not have the courage to examine his sentiments too closely.
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