"Columbus encountered Tainos throughout most of the West Indies. They inhabited the Bahamas and all of the Greater Antilles except western Cuba …"
"The indians who called themselves Arawaks lived only in the Guianas and the adjacent part of Trinidad …. Columbus never met them. Moreover, they differed in both language and culture from all of the natives he did meet."
Irving Rouse (1992) The Tainos. p.5.