Berrio, Antonio de, Spanish Governor of Trinidad, 69
Bolivar, Simon, Liberator of Venezuela, 279
Bull of Partition, its terms, 48; disputed, 49; practically revoked, 134
Caciques of the Indians, their position, 4
Caribs, their character, 6; cannibalism, 20, 31; hatred of Spaniards, 20; in Guiana, 23, 75; in St. Kitt's, 88
Carlisle, Earl of, Grantee of Caribbee Islands, 85, 122
Carthagena, taken by French, 178; great fair, 184; attacked by Admiral Vernon, 205
Cary, Colonel, favours the buccaneers, 165
Cassard, Jacques, the corsair, 179; captures St. Eustatius, 180; Curaçao, 181
"Cavaliers" and "Roundheads" in Barbados, 119
Charles II. declared king in the Bermudas and Virginia, 117; Barbados, 122; his interest in the plantations, 135
Christianity forced on the natives, 8, 27
Coffee, leader of rebel slaves in Berbice, 221, 223
Contraband trade with Spanish colonies, 53, 57, 201
Cullen, Dr. E., projector of the Darien Canal, 353
Darbey, John, an English prisoner in Cuba, 171
Delgado, Augustine, an "El Dorado" seeker, 46
Dessalines, a chief in the Haytian insurrection, 271; crowned emperor, 274
Dogs, hunt Indians, 16; run wild, 22; hunt maroons, 235; hunt rebel negroes, 271
_Dominus Vobiscum_, one of the first English vessels in the West Indies, 49
Drake, Sir Francis, voyage with Hawkins, 57; raid on Nombre de Dios, 59; great expedition to the West Indies, 63; captures St. Domingo, 64; last voyage, 65; death, 65
"El Dorado," the quest for, 23; dangers, 24; germ of the story, 32; Martinez' report, 44
Emancipation, Great Britain, 289; France, 310; Denmark, 312; Holland, 313; Spain, 313
Enambuc, M. d', first French settler, 87-8, 116
Fedreman, Nicholas, an "El Dorado" seeker, 35
Ferdinand and Isabella, kind feelings towards the Indians, 10; grant from the Pope, 48
Fontaine, Father, a Catholic missionary, 134
French, in the West Indies, 49-51, 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
Gordon, Mr., a Member of the Jamaica Assembly, executed, 340
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