Higuamota, daughter of Caonabo, falls in love with Don Hernando de
Guevara.
Higuanama, a female Cacique, hanged by order of Ovando.
Higuey, domain of: character of its inhabitants; Ovando's war with the natives; martial character of the people; multitudes of them destroyed; sue for peace; again revolt; and slaughter their tyrants; situation of their towns; are defeated and compelled to conceal themselves in the fastnesses; are hunted like wild beasts.
Hipparchus, error of, in respect of Africa, and India. Hispaniola, discovery of; cause of its being so called; description of the inhabitants; of the country; transactions with the natives; form of government; alarm created by a discharge of cannon; general description of; domains into which it was divided; made the metropolis of the New World: thought to have been the ancient Ophir; an account of the numbers of the natives who perished, victims to the avarice of the whites; ceded to the French. 317. Honduras, cape of, discovered by Columbus.; inhabitants.
Honey and wax found at Guadaloupe.
Horses, fear of the Haytiens of; terror inspired by them at the battle of the Vega; a remarkable one which moved in curvets to the music of a viol.
Huelva, Alonzo Sanchez de, the pilot, fabled to have died in the house of
Columbus.
Huerta, La, delightful island of, H. 167; inhabitauts of.
Humboldt, his account of the present condition of the southern side of
Cuba; account of the route of Columbus, note.
Hurricanes, seldom known in Cuba; a violent one in Hayti; reflections of the Haytiens previous to it.