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These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.
But he stayed long enough to see his first parrots and to marvel at the fact that the Indians spoke three languages — one strictly between the warriors, another for the mostly Arawak women, and a third for ordinary communication between men and women.
Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an Amerindian society that originated on the north coast of South America.