INDEX
Abbad, Friar Iñigo, his history of
Puerto Rico; cited; on
state of agriculture in 1776.
Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, attacks San
Juan.
Aborigines, see Indians.
Agriculture, inhabitants of Puerto Rico forced to turn to; condition of, in 1776.
Aguáda, its history.
Albemarle, Earl of, captures
Havana.
Alexander VI, Pope, divides the
world between Spain and
Portugal.
American army, landing of;
recognized as liberators,; also
see preface v.
Americans, interest of, in the
insurrection of Lares, 1868.
Antigua, discovery of.
Arecibo, town of.
Armada, effects of destruction of.
Autonomy granted to Puerto Rico.
Bastidas, Bishop Rodrigo, charged with liberating Indian slaves in Puerto Rico.
Beet-sugar, its injurious competition with cane-sugar, 228.
Bemini (Florida), island of, King Ferdinand wants Ponce to explore it, 59; Indian reports of, 60; discovery of, 61.
Blake, English admiral, captures
Spanish galleons, 136.
Blasquez, Juan, judge-auditor of
Puerto Rico, 102.
Boabdil, last of the Moorish kings.
Boriquén, first known name of Puerto Rico; seat of Guaybána; Boriqueños restless; revolt in; last of the Boriquén Indians; the republic of, proclaimed; falls; native inhabitants of.
Bowdoin, Hendrick, commands
Dutch fleet in attack on San Juan.
Brau, his history of Puerto Rico quoted.
Bruckman, an American, takes active part in insurrection; shot.
Buccaneers, their origin.
Cacáo.
Cannibals, supposed to be found among the Caribs.
Capárra, first settlement of Spaniards in Puerto Rico; capital transferred from, to San Juan; the old capital.
Capital, transferred from Capárra to Sun Juan.
Caribs, supposed by Columbus to be on Guadeloupe; annoy Spaniards in Puerto Rico; assist the Boriquén Indians; raids in Puerto Rico; in Dominica punished by the Spaniards; in the Windward Islands; their extermination of aborigines of the West Indies; origin of; characteristics; were they cannibals?; disappearing.
Castellano y Villaroya, Spanish Colonial
Minister, intercedes in behalf of Puerto
Rico.
Castellanos, Juan, brings 75 colonists
to Puerto Rico; attorney for Puerto
Rico at the court of Spain.
Castellanos, Juan de, treasurer of Puerto Rico.
Castro, Baltazar, reports depredations of Caribs.
Ceron, Juan, Governor of Puerto Rico; arrested by Juan Ponce; restored to office; returns to Puerto Rico as governor.
Cervantes de Loayza, governor.
Charles V, King of Spain; quarrels with Francis I of France; orders the fortification of San German.
Cholera, epidemic of.
Church, in general.
Cities, growth of.
Clergy;
the island made a diocese;
Alonzo Manso, first prelate;
decree of Isabel II affecting clergy.
Coco-palm introduced.
Coffee.
Columbus, Christopher, returns from his first voyage; received by the court at Barcelona; second expedition organized; his second expedition sails from Cadiz; discovers the Windward Islands; introduces system of enslaving the Indians by "distribution" of them among settlers.
Columbus, Diego, with Christopher Columbus's second expedition; viceroy and admiral, in la Española; deposes Ponce; authority of, suspended; deprived of the power of appointing Governor of Puerto Rico.
Commerce, its development; imports and exports.
Cortéz, his conquest of Mexico.
Cromwell, his alliance with France
against Spain.
Cuba, influence of Cuban revolution on
Puerto Rico; reforms in, suggested by
Sagasta.
De la Gama, Antonio, charged with executing
the royal decree against the "distribution" of Indians.
Diaz, Bernal, de Pisa, with Columbus's
second expedition.
Diego, Rafael, organizer of the revolution
of 1812.
Distribution of Indians among the Spanish
conquerors as slaves;
system introduced by Columbus.
Dominica, discovery of;
Caribs in, aid Puerto Rico Indians against
the Spaniards; Spanish expedition against
Caribs in.
Dominicans, order of.
Drake, Francis, his expeditions in the
Caribbean.
Education;
illiteracy and general ignorance; in hands of
clergy; new interest in; first college;
schools.
Elective system.
England contracts to take slaves into the Spanish-American colonies.
English, ship visits Puerto Rico and alarms inhabitants; war with, fleet sent against Spaniards in West Indies; fleet anchors off "Caleta del Cabron," and is fired on by Spaniards; abandons the attack; alliance with France against Spain; capture Havana; attack San Juan.
Española (Santo Domingo).
Fajardo, town of.
Ferdinand, King of Spain, his interest in Puerto Rico.
Fetichism in the religion of the peasantry.
Filibusters, origin of.
Finance.
Florida, discovery of;
Ponce's last expedition to.
Francis I, King of France, quarrel
with Charles V of Spain.
Franciscans, order of.
French, send privateers to attack the Antilles; capture San German twice and destroy it; attack Guayama; fail in an attack on Puerto Rico; alliance with English against Spain; pirates in the Caribbean.
Fuente, Alonso la, his letters to the
Spanish Government.
Ginger.
Gold, in Puerto Rico; early search for; first discovery; gold-bearing streams; production of gold.
Government of Puerto Rico, instructions by the King of Spain.
Guadeloupe, discovery of; Caribs in, aid Puerto Rico Indians against the Spaniards.
Guaybána, cacique in Puerto Rico; death of.
Guaybána second, heads revolt against the Spaniards; massacres Spaniards; is defeated; killed.
Haro, Juan de, governor, defends San
Juan against the Dutch.
Havana, captured by the English under
the Earl of Albemarle and Admiral
Pocock.
Hawkyns, John, his freebooting
voyages among the Antilles; his fleet
captured; killed.
Holland, Spain's war with;
sends fleet against Puerto Rico;
it is defeated.
Hurricanes in the West Indies;
in Puerto Rico.
Indians, system of "distribution" of, introduced; in revolt; slaughter Spaniards; defeated by Ponce; number of, in Puerto Rico; "distribution" of; rapid decrease of; condition of; efforts to prevent extinction of; "distribution" of, among settlers forbidden; the last 80 survivors liberated from slavery; last report of the Boriquén Indians.
Inquisition, the, in Puerto Rico; Nicolas Ramos, the last Inquisitor; abolition of the Inquisition; reestablished.
Isabel II, her decree declaring property
of the secular clergy national property.
Jews, property of, confiscated to supply
funds for Columbus's second expedition.
Jíbaro, the Puerto Rican peasant;
customs of.
Lando, Governor of Puerto Rico, tries
to prevent persons leaving the island.
Lares, the insurrection of.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, his "Relations of the Indies" cited; seeks to prevent extinction of Indians; favors introduction of negro slaves.
Laws, reform, promised; electoral.
Leeward Islands, discovery of.
Le Grand, Pierre, the French pirate.
Libraries; since American occupation.
Loiza, settlement of.
l'Olonais, sobriquet of Sables d'Olone,
q.v.
Macias, Manuel, governor-general, declares
the island in a state of war.
Manso, Alonzo, first bishop of Puerto
Rico.
Marie-Galante, discovery of.
Mayor, Soto, forms a settlement at Guánica;
killed by Indians.
McCormick, James, his report on Puerto
Rico in 1880.
Mestizos, or mixed races.
Military service, number of men in Puerto
Rico able to carry arms.
Mixed races;
prejudice against.
Montbras, French pirate.
Morals in the island under Spanish rule.
Morgan, Sir Henry, the pirate.
Mulattoes in the Spanish colony.
Napoleon, his influence over Spain.
Natives, see Indians.
Negroes, introduced into Santo Domingo as slaves; into Puerto Rico; as slaves in Puerto Rico; introduced to save the Indians from extermination; intermix with Indians; number of, in the island; severe laws against.
Newspapers.
O'Daly, General, leads successful revolution in Puerto Rico.
Palm, coco-, introduced.
Papers, see Newspapers.
Peasants of Puerto Rico.
Peru, gold discoveries there serve to attract many settlers from Puerto Rico.
Philip I, his character.
Philip II, death of.
Pirates, see Buccaneers and Filibusters.
Pocock, English admiral, and the Earl of Albemarle, capture Havana.
Political rights.
Ponce, Juan, de Leon, with Columbus's second expedition; lands on Puerto Rico; appointed governor; deposed; restored; arrests Ceron; recalled by the King of Spain; defeats Guaybána with 5,000 to 6,000 Indians; deprived of his privileges; retires to Capárra; prepares for exploring the island of Bemini; discovers Florida; honored by the king; ordered to destroy the Caribs; accused of fomenting discord in Puerto Rico; last expedition to Florida, wounded, dies; monument to him in San Juan.
Population, growth of.
Portugal, Alexander VI divides world
between Portugal and Spain.
Press, the;
first printing-press.
Prim, John, Count of Reus, his severe
proclamation against the negroes.
Primitive inhabitants.
Products.
Puerto Rico, discovery of; first settlement, at Capárra; made a bishopric; name of Puerto Rico first used October, 1514; divided into two departments; capital transferred from Capárra to present location, San Juan; disease and pestilence; destructive storms; news of gold discoveries in Peru causes many settlers to leave; inhabitants try to leave the island for the Peru gold fields; devastated by French and Indians; the inhabitants turn to agriculture, 100; expedition sent against the French in Santa Cruz; English fleet, under the Earl of Estren, appears off San Juan; used as a "presidio," or place of banishment for political prisoners for three centuries; condition of, in 1765, described by Alexander O'Reilly; revolution headed by Rafael Diego and General O'Daly, 153; divided into seven judicial districts; political rights in the island; efforts of Spain to promote development of the island; state of society, 159; effects of Carlist troubles in Spain; resources of, diminished; description of the island in 1880; reform laws to relieve financial distress; promise of reforms; the new electoral law; conditions in the island immediately before the American occupation; becomes part of the United States; its advantageous situation; soil and products; harbors; climate; primitive inhabitants; present inhabitants; era of greatest prosperity under Spanish rule.
Races in Puerto Rico.
Ramirez, Francisco, President of the
"Republic of Boriquén,".
Reforms, promise of, by Spanish
Government; granted too late.
Religion of the peasantry.
Republic of Boriquén proclaimed.
Revolution, against Spanish oppression.
Rodney, English admiral, attacks French
West Indies.
Sables d'Olone, French pirate.
Sagasta, suggests reforms in Puerto Rico and Cuba.
Sail.
Salazar, Diego do, heroic conduct of; defeats Indians.
San German founded.
San Juan, only settlement in Puerto Rico not destroyed by the French; the fort, "Fortaleza," still used as governor's residence, built in 1540; fortification and improvement of; attacked by English fleet, under Drake; captured by English, 120; evacuated by the English; attacked by English; history of; replaces Capárra as the capital.
San Juan Bautista, island of (Puerto
Rico).
Santa Cruz taken and held by the French.
Santo Domingo, discovery of.
Schools, number and attendance of, in
1889.
Sedeño, Contador of Puerto Rico; his
peculations and death.
Slavery, Indians placed in, through the
system of "distribution.".
Slavery, negro, introduced into Santo Domingo; favored by Church and State; first negro slaves in Puerto Rico; discussion of its abolition; abolition of; its history in the island; introduced to replace lost labor of the Indians; England contracts to take 140,000 slaves into the Spanish-American colonies in thirty years; slaves emancipated.
Spain, Alexander VI divides the world between Spain and Portugal; effects of her disastrous wars; sends fleet against pirates in the West Indies; abolishes the slave-trade.
Spaniards, number of, in Puerto Rico; as colonists in Puerto Rico; no women among early settlers.
Storms, damages by.
Sugar;
the industry injured by production of
beet-sugar.
Tiedra, Vasco de, Governor of Puerto
Rico.
Tobacco, its cultivation permitted by a
special law.
Trade, its growth.
United States sends army to Puerto Rico;
acquires the island.
Weyler, General, his inhuman proceedings
in Cuba.
Windward Islands, discovered by Columbus.
Women, none among early Spanish settlers; education of, neglected.
Zambos, mixture of negro and Indian.
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