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  • Acosta, Pedro de, explorer of the Orinoco, 43
  • African slavery, 157
  • Aguirre the Tyrant, 38
  • Alfinger, Ambrosio de, searches for "El Dorado," 34
  • Altienza, Donna Inez de, murdered by Aguirre, 39
  • Amazon Company, 83
  • Amazon, expedition of Ursua and Aguirre, 38
  • American Indian, his character, 1
  • Amis des Noirs, 257
  • "Angel Gabriel," John Sayers Orr, rouses the negroes of Demerara, 335
  • Antigua, 165
  • Anti-slavery party, 289, 298
  • Apprenticeship, negro, 306
  • Araby, a leader of bush negroes, 227
  • Arawaks,
    • their character, 2
    • Columbus tries to enslave them, 9
    • the Spanish sovereign's good feeling for them, 9
    • their treatment by the first colonists, 11
    • did not lay up provisions, 12
    • thinks Spaniards gods, 12
    • refuse to be slaves, 18
    • die off in great numbers, 18
    • in Guiana, 23, 75
  • Araya, Dutch at, 75
  • Armada, Spanish, 63, 64
  • Aruba, 277
  • Aspinwall, 352
  • Assiento contract to supply slaves, 196
  • Ayscue, Sir George, reduces Barbados for the Parliament, 124
  • Bahamas,
    • natives kidnapped, 19
    • settled by English, 86
    • resort of buccaneers, 96
    • captured by Spaniards, 117
  • BaÏhaut, M., bribed by Panama Canal Company, 361
  • Bannister, Major, English Governor of Surinam, 169
  • Barbados,
    • first colonised, 85
    • protests against grant to Earl of Carlisle, 117
    • result of the English revolution, 117
    • Charles II. proclaimed king, 122
    • Sir George Ayscue arrives to subdue the island, 124
    • attack on Hole Town, 126
    • the island surrenders, 128
    • sufferings of a bond-servant in, 151
    • De Ruyter driven off from, 161
    • its unique position, 208
    • negro plots, 213
    • anti-slavery insurrection, 293
    • result of emancipation, 328
    • confederation disturbances, 341
  • Barker, Andrew, a rover, 62
  • Baron, a bush negro chief, 229
  • Basco, Michael de, a buccaneer, 99, 102
  • Baskerville, Sir Thomas, a companion of Drake, 65
  • Beaudierre, Mons. de, a sympathiser with the coloured people of Hayti, 259
  • Berbice,< taine, M., a Panama defaulter, 360
  • Fourgeaud, Colonel, 227
  • Franklin, Washington, 294
  • Free trade, 324
  • French,
    • in the West Indies, 49-54, 87
    • company for settling the islands, 116
    • character of, 167
    • revolution, its influence on Hayti, effect on the Spanish Main, 276
  • George of Spires, an "El Dorado" seeker, 35
  • German knights in Venezuela, 33
  • Gold-hunting, 11, 15, 23, 29, 73
  • Gordon, Mr., a Member of the Jamaica Assembly, executed, 340
  • Grasse, Count de, 241, 249
  • Grenada, 238
  • Groenwegel, Commander of Essequebo, 86
  • Guadeloupe, 238, 251
  • Guanin, 23
  • Guatavita, Lake of, 32
  • Guatemala, 288
  • Guiana, 23, 69
  • Guianians, 44
  • Guichen, Admiral de, 241, 249
  • GÜiria, 282
  • Guzman, Fernando de, 38
  • HaÏti, Hayti, or Hispaniola,
    • its inhabitants, 3
    • colonised, 11
    • gold found, 11
    • almost ruined by becoming depopulated, 21
    • a resort of buccaneers, 91
    • under the French, 251
    • downfall, 257
    • British invasion, 268
    • republics and empires, 274
  • Hall, Captain, exploit of, 206
  • Harcourt, Robert, in Guiana, 76
  • Harry, a Guiana Indian, in London, 77, 78
  • Hartop, Job, a prisoner in Mexico, 58
  • Havana,
    • ransomed, 50
    • sacked and burnt, 51
  • Hawkins, Sir John,
    • first voyage, 53
    • second, 54
    • third, 57
    • final trip with Drake, and death, 65
  • Hawkins, William, voyage to Brazil, 52
  • Hennessy, Governor John Pope, of Barbados, 341, 345
  • Henri I. (Christophe), Emperor of Hayti, 274
  • Henry VIII. of England sends an expedition to the West Indies, 49
  • Herera, Alonzo de, 45
  • Hogs naturalised in Hispaniola, see HaÏti
  • Hondo river, 250
  • Hood, Sir Samuel, 238149
  • Rupert, Prince, 124
  • Ruyter, Admiral de, attacks Barbados, 161
  • St. Christopher's, or St. Kitt's,
    • settled by Thomas Warner, 84
    • granted to the Earl of Carlisle, 85
    • d'Enambuc arrives, 87
    • divided between English and French, 88
    • attacked by Spaniards, 114
    • granted to a French Company, 116
    • bond-servants in, 153
    • quarrels between English and French, 162, 177, 207
    • captured by French, 249
  • St. Croix or Santa Cruz, riots in, 311, 329
  • St. Domingo,
    • captured by Drake, 64
    • attempted by Penn and Venables, 131
  • St. Eustatius, 86, 161, 181, 238, 243
  • St. Lucia, 238, 241, 251
  • St. Martin's, 115, 116
  • St. Thomas, 239
  • St. Vincent, 238
  • Salle, General de la, French Governor of St. Kitt's, 162
  • San Juan river, 346
  • Santa Martha, captured by French pirates, 51
  • Santiago de Cuba, gallant fight at, 50
  • Santiago de la Vega captured by English, 116
  • Savile, Henry, his "Libel of Spanish Lies," 66
  • Sedenno, Antonio, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45
  • Serfdom, 137, 145
  • Shelley, Colonel, a "Cavalier" in Barbados, 121
  • Simarons, see Maroons
  • Slaves,
  • Smith, Rev. John, a missionary sentenced to death in connection with a slave revolt, 303-6
  • South Sea Bubble, 187, 196
  • Spain,
    • character of her people, 9
    • introducing Christianity, 9
    • wanton cruelty to the natives,


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