Ayuntamiento, town council, in
Cuba, 146
Azua de Compostela, 252
B
Baez, Buenaventura, 255, 256
Bahama Channel, 15
Bahamas, extent, 3; political
connection, 7 ; area and population,
12 ; general structure,
14 ; connection with continent,
15 ; original inhabitants, 26 ;
English occupation, 76; description
and history, 115-127 ;
resources and products, 117,
118 ; the different islands, 119-
123 ; first settlements, 125 ;
industries and trade, 126;
government, 126, 127
Bahia Honda, port of Cuba, 156
Baianet, 227
Balboa, discovers the Pacific, 69
Balcarres, Lord, suppresses maroons,
214
Baracoa, first settlement in
Cuba, 56 ; the present town,
161 ; landing of insurgent
chiefs, 183
Barahona, 252
Barbados, position, 6; extent,
11 ; first colonised, 75, 78 ;
political revolt, 93 ; slavery in,
105, 113 ; separate colony, 228 ;
effect of volcanic eruption in
St. Vincent, 344; description,
355-357 i history, 357-361 ;
people and government, 362-
364 ; education, 364 ; capital,
364, 365 ; hurricanes, 366
Barbuda, situation and extent, 9;
first settled, 75 ; part of Leeward
Islands Colony, 290;
description and history, 305,
306
Bartholomew, brother of Columbus,
45- S‘ e o.lso Colon,
Bartolomé
Basin, or Bassin, see Basse End
Basle, treaty of, 238,255
Basse End, 300, 301
Basses-Terres, 304
Basse-Terre, capital of St. Christopher,
314; section of
Guadeloupe, 318 ; capital of
Guadeloupe, 321
Batabano, port of Cuba, 156
Bayamo, town in Cuba, relics of
aborigines, 27 ; caves near,
131 ; revolutionary conspiracy,
177 ; battle, 185
Bayamon, town in Puerto Rico,
275
Beauharnais, Marquis de, 337
Behechio, cacique of Xaragua,
52
Bemini Keys, 120
Bequia, 348
Berry Isles, 120
“ Bims,” “ Bimshire,” 365
“ Blackbeard,” the pirate, 37-
89 ; headquarters in the
Bahamas, 125 ; resort off
Margarita, 384
“ Black Eagle,” 173
Black River, 203
“ Black Warrior,” 175
Blanco, Gen. Ramon, 190-198
Blanquilla, 384
Blockade of Cuban ports, 194
Bluefields Bay, 200
Blue Mountains, 201
Bobadilla, Francisco de, supersedes
Columbus, 47 ; shipwrecked,
47, 48
Boca Drago, 371
Boca Serpiente, 370
Bohio, native name for a part of
Haiti, 39, 231
Borinquen, native name for
Puerto Rico, 31, 54, 266
Bottom, town of, 310
“ Boucan,” 81
Boyer, General, 241-243, 255
Brazil, Portugal’s title to, 51
Breda, treaty of, 94, 309, 313
Bridgetown, 359, 364
Broa Bay, 142
Brooke, Gen. J. R., 197, 284-
286
Brooks, Henry, 183
Buccaneers, origin of term, 81,
82 ; character and exploits,
82-86 ; headquarters at Port
Royal, 210 ; resort at St.
Thomas, 296
Buccaneers’ Fort, 142
Buchanan, President, proposal to
purchase Cuba, 178
Buen Aire, situation and extent,
12 ; taken by the Dutch, 73 !
description, 387
Byron, Admiral, 96
C
Cabanas, port of Cuba, 156
Cabral, José Maria, 256
Cadiz, Columbus arrives at, 45.
48 ^¿~ Caicos, the, relics of aborigines,
27 ; description, 122 ; political
connection, 127
Caimanera, landing U nited States
marines at, 196
Calleja Isasi, captain - general
of Cuba, 184
Camaguey, native name of Puerto
Principe, Cuba, 152
Campos, General Martinez, governor
general of Cuba, 178,
181, 184-187
Canary Islands, visited by Columbus,
35 ! emigrants to
Cuba, 156
Cannibalism, practised by Canbs,
32
Canovas del Castillo, 190
Caparra, 267
Cape Beata, 226
Cape Engano, 226
Cape Haitien, 226, 249
Cape Icacos, 372
Cape Rojo, 277
Capesterre, 313, 319
Cape Tiburon, 225
Cape Verde, visited by Columbus,
46
Capote, Domingo Mendez, 191,
198
Caracas, earthquake, 343
Caraibe, 219
Cardenas, 157
Cariacu, 349
Caribbean Sea, how formed, 2 ;
once a plain, 13 ; depth, 15 ;
submarine division, 15
Caribbees, 7 ; visited by English
explorers, 72 ; granted to the
Earl of Carlisle, 75 ! first
French colonists, 78 ; contests
for possession, 92—102 ; application
of the term, 287
Caribs, origin and character, 25 ;
islands inhabited by, 25 ; description,
31 ; habits and
customs, 32—34 ï Columbus
first meets, 41 ; attack upon
Puerto Rico, 268 ; in Antigua,
308 ; in Dominica, 327 ; in
Martinique, 332 ; in St. Vincent,
346 ; in Grenada, 351 ;
in Tobago, 368
Carib’s Leap, the, 351
Carlisle, Earl of, grant of
Caribbees, 75 ! governor of Jamaica,
215 ; grant of Barbados,
359
Carlisle Bay, 359
Cartagena', 68 ; attacked by buccaneers,
85
Casa Blanca, fort at Havana,
154 ; house of Ponce de Leon,
275
Casa Colon, 55, 253
Cassard, Jacques, 87
Castellanos, Adolfo Jimenez, 198
Castries, 338, 340, 341
Cathay, Cuba thought by Columbus
to be part of, 44
Catherine Hill, 202
Cat Island, position, 3 ; description,
131
Cauto, river in Cuba, 131
Cayey, 277
Caymans, 5, 201
Cayo Romano, 133
Cayos de las Doce Léguas, 134
Central America, as Spanish possession,
7 2