CAIMAN

CAIMAN or CAYMAN ISLANDS, certain American islands, lying south of Cuba and north-west of Jamaica, between $81^\{\backslash circ\}$ and $86^\{\backslash circ\}$ of west longitude, and in $21^\{\backslash circ\}$ of north latitude. They are most remarkable on account of the fishery of tortoise, which the people of Jamaica catch here and carry home alive, keeping them in pens for food, and killing them as they want them.