The Garifuna people hold various Catholic, African and Indian beliefs, and harbor a great respect for their ancestors, who they believe guide their lives from the spirit world.
The traditional Arawakan language of Garifuna is still spoken by around 200,000 people in Belize, Honduras, Guatamala and Nicaragua.
Sir Roger T. Goldworthy, Commander-in-Chief and Governor of British Honduras between 1884 and 1891, and Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1891 to 1897, led the first recorded expedition to the Cockscomb Mountains in 1888.
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