The West Indies and the Spanish Main

by James Rodway

• Iala, Father, an "El Dorado" seeker, [45]
• Indian, character of, [1]

• Jackson, Colonel, captures Santiago de la Vega, [116]
• Jacques I. (Dessalines), Emperor of Hayti, [274]
• Jamaica,
  • Valdivia wrecked off the coast, [30]
  • attacked by Colonel Jackson, [116]
  • captured by English, [131]
  • Spanish attempt to recapture, [133]
  • the first real British colony, [136]
  • progress of, [155]
  • authorities refuse help to the Darien colony, [193]
  • slave revolts, [214]
  • serious negro insurrection, [338]
• James I.,
  • friendship for Spain, [82], [114]
  • dispute with Spain about the West Indies and Virginia, [113]
• Jeffreys, Judge, sends prisoners to Barbados, [150]
• Jenkins, Captain, and his ear, [202]
• Jervis, Admiral Sir John, [251]
• Jews in the West Indies, [239], [245]

• Keymis, Captain, a follower of Ralegh, [74], [77-9], [81]
• Kyk-over-al, Dutch fort in Essequebo, [76]

• Labour difficulties, [14], [137], [321]
• Lafayette, [260]
• Lawrence, Captain, an English pirate, [99]
• Legrand, Pierre, a French pirate, [99]
• Leigh, Charles, first English settler in Guiana, [76]
• Lesseps, Ferdinand de, and his Panama scheme, [356]
• Lolonois, the great pirate, [101]

• Macatoa, reported a very rich city, [36]
• Madeirans imported into British Guiana, [327]
• Maltese imported into British Guiana, [327]
• Manoa, city of, fabulous residence of "El Dorado," [44]
• Margarita, [114], [152]
• Marino, Dictator of Venezuela, [283]
• Maroons or Simarons, [59], [211], [232]
• Martinez, Juan de, his report of "El Dorado,"[43]
• Martinique, [116], [182], [238], [251], [259]
• Mauduit, Captain, murdered in the Haytian revolt, [262]
• Merrifield, Ralph, one of the first settlers in St. Kitt's, [85]
• Methodists, [295]
• Miranda, Francisco, leader of the revolution in Venezuela, [277], [347]
• Missionaries, Protestant, [295], [327]
• Montbar, the French pirate, [100]
• Montserrat, [161], [165], [249]
• Morgan, Captain (afterwards Sir Henry), the English buccaneer, [102], [177]
• Morgan, Colonel, [162]
• Morillo, Marshal, Spanish leader in Venezuela, [284]

• Navio de permisso, [199]
• Negro slavery, [52], [59], [139], [156], [210]
• Negroes, free, difficulties with, [329]
• Nelson, Lord,
  • flying trip to the West Indies, [254]
  • his expedition to Nicaragua, [346]
• Nevis, [161], [249]
• New Edinburgh, [192]
• New Granada, [32], [33], [281], [288]
• New World, [1]
• Nicaragua and the canal scheme, [288], [346], [351], [355], [362]
• North, Roger, a settler in Guiana, [83], [85]
• Nueva Dorado, [70]

• Ojeda, Alonzo de, [27]
• Omaguas, reported a rich nation, [36]
• Ophir, [15], [23]
• Ordas, Diego de, explores the Orinoco, [43]
• Orders in Council, [300]
• Orr, John Sayers, "the Angel Gabriel," creates a disturbance in Demerara, [335]
• Ouverture, Toussaint L', leader of the Haytian negroes, [268]
• Oxenham or Oxnam, John, crosses the Isthmus, [61]
• Oyapok, English colonies in the, [76], [83]

• Panama, [186], [347], [350]
• Panama Canal, [347], [353], [355]
• Panama Railway, [352]
• Parima Lake, [33]
• Paterson, William, and the Darien scheme, [188]
• Penn and Venables, Generals, expedition to the West Indies, [130]
• Perez, Diego, a gallant Spaniard, [50]
• Petion, President of Hayti, [274], [285]
• Philips, Miles, an English prisoner in Mexico, [58]
• Pirates in the West Indies, [49], [90]
• Pitman, Henry, a bond-servant, [150]
• Pitt, in favour of a Panama Canal, [347]
• Plantations, [143], [154], [291]
• Pointis, de, a leader of buccaneers, [178]
• Pomeroon, [75], [161]
• Pope, The,
  • issues Bull of Partition, [48]
  • acknowledges French rights in the West Indies, [134]
• Popham, Captain, captures Spanish letters, [69]
• Porto Bello,
  • its fair, [185]
  • captured by Vernon, [204]
• Porto Rico, [20], [49]
• Prince of Orange in England, [252]
• Privateers, [96], [98]
• Proclamations to the Indians, [27], [30]
• Providence Island, [86]
• Puerto Cabello, [277]

• Quesada, Herman de, an "El Dorado" seeker, [36]

• Ralegh Sir Walter,
  • at Trinidad, [66]
  • his "Letters Patent," [68]
  • his interest in Guiana, [69]
  • captures Trinidad, [70]
  • searches for "El Dorado," [72]
  • sent to the Tower, [76]
  • liberated, [77]
  • goes again to Guiana, [78]
  • capture of St. Thome, [79]
  • his execution, [82]
• Reclus, M., a Panama Canal projector, [356]
• Regapo, Leonard, a Guiana Indian, in London, [77]
• Repartimientos, [15]
• Robespierre, [260]
• Rodney, Admiral, [237], [242]
• Rossy, Sieur du, [116]
• Route of Spanish trade, [49]
• Rovers to the Main, [49], [66]
• Royal African Company for introducing slaves, [149]
• Rupert, Prince, [124]
• Ruyter, Admiral de, attacks Barbados, [161]