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“Loafing Loaers”
As it turns out, the Arawaks may have been too prone to take life lying down because in years to come they were overrun and slaughtered by island-hopping invaders from South America, the fierce Carib Indians.
It may have been the hammock-loving Arawaks that James Thurber had in mind when he wrote: “It’s better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
Europeans soon learned what the Indian inventors had known all the time: Hammocks, with their loose fishnet weave, were ideal for a cool, breezy rest in the tropics, afloat or ashore.
Not only that, but they were highly portable. And when it came time for a snooze, all you had to do was unroll it, find two somethings high enough and far enough apart to tie the hammock to, and climb in.
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