IN D E X
A
Abaco, Great and Little, 3, 119
Abercrombie, Lord, attacks San
Juan, 269
Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, recovers
St. Lucia, 342 ; takes Trinidad,
377 j
Aborigines, general characteristics,
25-30
Acadians, 249
Acklin, 4, 122
Adamanay, 227
Aguadilla, 262, 266, 276
Aguado, Juan, 45
Agueynaba, 266, 267
Aguirre, Lopez de, 384
Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 328,
346
Albemarle, Lord, grantee of
islands in Bahamas, 77 ; commander
at capture of Havana,
95
Alexander VI., Pope, bull dividing
Spanish and Portuguese
possessions, 51, 71
American Mediterranean, 2, 259,
343
Andros, position, 3 ; description,
121
Anegada, one of the Virgin
Islands, 8, 294, 295
Anguilla, situation and extent,
8 ; part of Leeward Islands I
Colony, 290 ; description, 302,
303
Anguilletta, 303
Annotto, 200
Antigua, situation and extent, 9 ;
origin of name, 41 ; taken by
English, 75 ; captured by
French, 93 ; part of Leeward
Islands Colony, 290 ; description
and history, 306-309
Antilles, origin of the term, 4
Antonio, Cape, 128, 130, 141
Apodoca, Spanish admiral in
Trinidad, 377
Arawaks, origin and character,
25 ; islands inhabited by, 25 ;
in Puerto Rico, 282 ; in Tobago,
368 ; in Trinidad, 376
Archipelago, of Columbus, or
American, 2 ; how formed, 13-
16 ; first inhabitants, 24
Arecibo, 262, 275
Ariguanabo, lake in Cuba, 132
Arroyo, 262, 277, 284
Artibonite, river of Haiti, 230
Aruba, situation and extent, 12 ;
taken by the Dutch, 73 ; description,
387
Ascension, name given by Columbus
to Grenada, 46, 351
Asphalt lake, Trinidad, 374
Aux Cayes, 227, 234, 249
Ayscue, Admiral, at Barbados,
93. 360
397