Abstract
Surfing was being practiced by Carib watermen of the Lesser Antilles as early as the eighteenth century, when it was documented by an eyewitness account a French shipwreck survivor on the island of Tobago made just a few years before Captain James Cook and his crew brought back accounts of Polynesians surfing in the Pacific. This article looks at the development of surfing skills amongst the inhabitants of the Caribbean and what influences, if any, the people of Atlantic Africa or South America had on the development of the sport here, or whether it was an independent adaptation to local conditions found along the shores of the islands of the Lesser Antilles.
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