The West Indies and the Spanish Main

by James Rodway

• 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,
  • Indian, [19]
  • negro, [52], [59], [139], [156], [210], [289]
  • white (bond-servants), [146]
  • insurrections, [213], [294], [302]
  • abolition of the African trade, [255], [289]
  • runaways, [210]
  • Registrar and Protector of, [293]
  • emancipation of, [309]
  • reviews of slavery, [289]
• 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, [18]
  • hardiness of Spaniards, [25]
  • their audacity, [30]
  • Spanish claim to supremacy, [114]
  • interference with their trade, [133]
  • Spanish cruelty to prisoners of war, [171]
• "Spiriting" or kidnapping white servants, [146]
  • made felony 147
• Sugar cane, [19], [141]
• Suicides, [18]
• Surinam, [161], [165], [167], [171], [179]
• Sylva, Gaspar de, an "El Dorado" seeker, [45]

• Tison, Thomas, first English trader to West Indies, [49]
• Tobacco, [141]
• Tobago, [115], [238], [251]
• Toledo, Don Frederic de, captures St. Kitt's, [114]
• Tortuga, the great rendezvous of the buccaneers, [95], [102], [165]
• Trade forced upon the Spanish settlers, [53], [57]
• Transported convicts, [147]
• Treasure seeking, [23]
• Trelawny Town, [232]
• Tribute imposed on natives, [15]
• Trinidad, [70], [328]

• Ursua, Pedro de, murdered by the tyrant Aguirre, [38]
• Utrecht, treaty of, [196]

• Valdivia, his shipwreck, [30]
• Van Horn the pirate, [103]
• Vanderbilt Transit Company, [351]
• Venables and Penn, Generals, their expedition, [130]
• Venezuela,
  • the treasure seekers in, [23]
  • her struggle for independence, [277]
• Vernon, Admiral, [204], [205], [337]
• Virgin Islands, [96]
• Virginia, [113]

• Wafer, Lionel, his journey across the Isthmus, [105]
• Walker, William, the modern filibuster, [352]
• Walrond, Colonel, a "Cavalier" in Barbados, [121]
• Warner, Thomas, founder of the colony of St. Kitt's, [84], [85], [88]
• Wars,
  • England and Spain, [63], [114], [130]
  • Holland and Spain, [87], [114]
  • France and Spain, [116]
  • England and Holland, [129], [160]
  • England and France against Holland and Spain, [170]
  • France against England and Holland, [177]
  • Spain, England, and Holland against France, [178]
  • England and Holland against France and Spain, [195]
  • England and Spain, [203]
  • England and her revolted colonies, [241]
  • France, Spain, and Holland join in the quarrel, [243]
  • commencement of the great French war, [251]
  • England and the United States, [255]
• Watts, Governor, of St. Kitt's, [162]
• Welsers of Augsburg, [33]
• West India Company of Holland, [87]
• William III. and the Darien scheme, [194]
• Willoughby, Lord, Governor of Barbados, [122], [124-8], [164]
• Wyse, M., a Panama Canal projector, [356]

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