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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