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Dominica: the Caribbean's lost world

Telegraph: "They came in canoes carved from single tree trunks a century before Columbus, and for generations they resisted European attempts to take their lands.
But the tide of history was against them, and gradually they retreated deeper into the mountainous rainforests of their island until barely 500 remained."

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