The West Indies and the Spanish Main

by James Rodway

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INDEX

• 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,
  • supplies cut off during war, [170]
  • captured by French corsairs, [178], [179]
  • great slave insurrection, [218]
• Belize, [250]
• Berrie, one of Ralegh's captains, [74]
• Berrio, Antonio de, Spanish Governor of Trinidad, [69]
• Bolivar, Simon, Liberator of Venezuela, [279]
• Bond-servants, [149]
• Boyer, President of Hayti, [275]
• Brethren of the coast, [93]
• British Guiana, [328], [334]
• British Legion in Venezuela, [286]
• Bull of Partition,
  • its terms, [48]
  • disputed, [49]
  • practically revoked, [134]
• Bush negroes, [225]
• Buxton, Fowell, [300]
• Byam, Major, Governor of Surinam, [128]
• Byron, Admiral, [241], [242]

• Caciques of the Indians, their position, [4]
• California rush, [351]
• Campeachy, Bay of, [96], [200]
• Cannibals, [20], [31]
• Canning's declaration of neutrality, [285]
• Caribana, [75]
• Caribbee Islands, [20], [85]
• 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]
• Casas, Las, [46]
• Cassard, Jacques,
  • the corsair, [179]
  • captures St. Eustatius, [180]
  • Curaçao, [181]
• Cattle, wild, [21]
• "Cavaliers" and "Roundheads" in Barbados, [119]
• Central American Republics, [288]
• Chagres, [352]
• Charbon, Jan Abraham, [219]
• Charles I. and the Colonies, [114]
• Charles II.
  • declared king in the Bermudas and Virginia, [117]
  • Barbados, [122]
  • his interest in the plantations, [135]
• Chinese labourers introduced, [327]
• Christianity forced on the natives, [8], [27]
• Christophe, a Haytian leader, [269], [274]
• Clervaux, a Haytian leader, [271]
• Clifford, Jeronomy, case of, [173]
• Cochrane, Admiral, [277]
• Codrington, Colonel, [119]
• Coffee, [143]
• Coffee, leader of rebel slaves in Berbice, [221], [223]
• Coke, John, [84]
• Colon, [352]
• Colonies, Spanish, in Hispaniola, [11], [14]
• Coloured people in Hayti, [257]
• Columbian Republic, [288]
• Columbus' opinion of the natives, [6]
• Confederation in Barbados, [341]
• Contraband trade with Spanish colonies, [53], [57], [201]
• Convict labour, [147]
• Coolies, East Indian, [327]
• Cooper, Anthony Ashley, [147]
• Corsairs, [49], [177]
• Corteso, Juan, an "El Dorado" seeker, [45]
• Costa Rica, [288]
• Cottin, M., [360]
• Cotton, [15], [18], [141]
• Council for Plantations, [135], [146]
• Cromwell and the West Indies, [129]
• Cudjo, a maroon chief, [215]
• Cuba, [20]
• Cullen, Dr. E., projector of the Darien Canal, [353]
• Curaçao, [115], [152], [165], [180], [238]

• Darbey, John, an English prisoner in Cuba, [171]
• Darien Canal, [353]
• Darien scheme, [188]
• Delgado, Augustine, an "El Dorado" seeker, [46]
• Demerara, [213], [246], [252], [301]
• 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]
• Dominica, [91], [116], [238], [241], [249]
• Dominus Vobiscum, one of the first English vessels in the West Indies, [49]
• D'Oyley, Governor of Jamaica, [134]
• 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]
• Drax, Colonel, [120]
• Du Casse, a French corsair, [177]
• Dudley, Sir Robert, [66]
• Dutch, [67], [75], [84], [86], [115], [129], [166]

• Edwards, Bryan, [157]
• Eiffel, M., [360]
• "El Dorado,"
  • the quest for, [23]
  • dangers, [24]
  • germ of the story, [32]
  • Martinez' report, [44]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [67]
• Emancipation,
  • Great Britain, [289]
  • France, [310]
  • Denmark, [312]
  • Holland, [313]
  • Spain, [313]
• Enambuc, M. d', first French settler, [87-8], [116]
• Enciso, Bachelor, [29]
• English and Dutch, [67], [68], [114]
• Essequebo, [213]
• Everson, a Dutch pirate, [177]
• Eyre, Governor of Jamaica, [339]

• 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]
• Fontaine, 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, [238]
• Hoogenheim, Wolfert Simon van, Governor of Berbice, [218]
• Huten, Philip von, an "El Dorado" seeker, [36]