As it is thus rendered extremely probable that the Arawack is closely connected with the great linguistic families of South America, it becomes of prime importance to trace its extension northward, and to determine if it is in any way affined to the tongues spoken on the West India Islands, when these were first discovered.
"The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations"
Daniel G. Brinton
Day by day I had come to realise how closely, though the main current of my blood was English, I was affined to the strange and mysterious people among whom I was now thrown-the only people in these islands, as it seemed to me, who would be able to understand a love-passion like mine.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton