Communications
OBI IN THE CARIBBEAN Owego, N. Y. TO the Editor:—In my article, Obi in the Caribbean, the word "obi" is used precisely as Mr. Joseph J. Williams intimates, and deliberately "extended from its...
...As she did not, I am far from convinced that my inference was incorrect...
...HENRY S. WHITEHEAD...
...I used the word because it is the common term for such matters in the Lesser Antilles, and as such is comparatively familiar...
...Guiterman sdludes...
...M. J. GORMAN...
...and the Cartagena which he and Mr...
...The actual pronunciation (which I rendered by the civilized form "Cartagene" in my article) involved the English "g" sound, as in gin...
...If Mr...
...Woodlock might very properly have also criticized the reviewer's ignorant reference to "the mystic monism of Mariolatry...
...If my ancient Santa Crucian crone had said something like "Cart-a-hin," then I should at once agree that I had gone too far back...
...It is, of course, purely a matter of opinion...
...REV...
...The three ports in question are Cartagena, seaport of Murcia, on the Mediterranean...
...And if the records of The Revolt of the Mercenaries (from which Flaubert derived his background for Salammbo) come near representing the mind of non-Carthaginian Africa of that era, then the term "Carthaginian" as an opprobrious epithet had a wider usage than the Roman dislike for that Syro-Phoenician race of sea-robbers to which Mr...
...A gentleman ought to be able to review a book of this kind without flinging such ancient epithets at the largest section of the Christian Church of today...
...Guiterman have in mind, i. e., the capital of Bolivar, in Colombia...
...Woodlock's criticism of Mr...
...the second was named by Vasquez de Coronado about 1563, and the third in 1553 by its founder Pedro de Heredia...
...Both the last-named derived the name from ancient Carthage, possibly through the Spanish seaport of Murcia already mentioned...
...Of course my article was intended to be merely informative and popular...
...The article was written from information gained at first hand on the ground, and was in no particular derived from the hearsay of West Indian Negroes, solely...
...I could have rendered the pronunciation thus: "Cart-agin...
...Cartago, previous to 1823 capital of the Central American state of Costa Rica...
...Joseph J. Williams intimates, and deliberately "extended from its own technical meaning to every form of West Indian witchcraft or superstition...
...Moreover, all three terms are derived from antique Carthage, the Carthage of Hannibal...
...Chamberlain's application of the word "devious" to the mind of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his review of Mr...
...TO the Editor:—I was very glad to see, in your issue of June 1, Mr...
...REVIEWERS' ETHICS Ottawa, Canada...
...Williams is familiar with Spanish, he will be aware that none of the three modern seaports from which the term I used, i. e., "Cartagene," might be derived, is pronounced like the word in quotations...
...I think, however, that Mr...
...The first-named was founded, 243 B. C, by Hasdrubal, and was called Carthago Nova to distinguish it from Old Carthage...
...Chesterton's new book...
...Cartago in Costa Rica was several times plundered by buccaneers, and so, as well as Colombian Cartagena, "has certain historical associations with piracy...
...Certainly I made no attempt to write a disquisition upon the variants in African magical practices, with their tribal sources and precise terminology...
Vol. 6 • July 1927 • No. 10
