Currents, atmospheric, production
of trade-winds and hurricanes,
19-21
Currents, oceanic, effect among
the islands, 17 ; production of
Gulf Stream, 18
Cushing, Caleb, American Minister
at Madrid, 180
D
Daiquiri, 196
Danish Islands, 80, 295-299
Darien, limit of Columbus’s explorations,
48 ; limit of Spanish
Main, 60
Denmark, islands belonging to,
8, 80 ; abolishes slave trade,
109 ; emancipates slaves, h i ;
description of the islands belonging
to, 295-298
Deseada, Spanish name of Dé-
sirade, 41, 321
Désirade, situation and extent,
9 ; discovery, 41, 321
Dessalines, Haitian general, 240,
* 241
Deux Mamelles, 319
Diamond Rock, 334
Diaz, discoverer of river Ozama,
47 Districts (judicial) of Cuba, 153
“ Dogs, The,” rocks at head of
the Caribbees, 8, 302
Dominica, situation and extent,
10 ; origin of name, 41 ; first
attempt to take possession, 77 ;
contest for, 92, 94, 97 ; naval
battle near, 98 ; part of Leeward
Islands Colony, 290-292 ;
description, 325-327 ; history,
327-329
Dominican Republic, see Santo
Domingo, Republic of
Don Christopher’s Cove, 49
Dragon Mouth, 371
Drake, Francis, accompanies
Hawkins on slave-trading trip,
66 ; privateering expeditions,
66-68 ; attack on Santo Domingo,
67, 234 ; attack on
San Juan, 268 ; death, 68
Dry River, 203
Duarte, Juan Pablo, 244
Dumas, Alexandre, 249
“ Dumb Dog,” 28, 118, 137
Dunmore Town, 120
Duparquet, governor of Martinique,
351
Duplessis, French adventurer,
77, 322
Dutch, the, send trading vessels
to islands, 68, 73 ; take possession
of St. Eustatius and
Saba, 75 ; Curaçao, 92 ; final
share, 102
“ Dutch West Indies,” 6, 11,
73 ; slavery in, in , 112 ; Saba
and St. Eustatius, 310, 311 ;
Curaçao, Buen Aire, and
Aruba, 383-388
E
Earl of Carlisle, receives grant
of Caribbees, 75 ; governor of
Jamaica, 215 ; grantee of Barbados,
359
Earthquakes, at Port Royal, 210,
211 ; in Haiti, 233, 248 ; in
Antigua, 309 ; in Venezuela,
343
Edwards, Bryan, statement regarding
slave trade, 105
Egmont, 352
El Caney, 161, 196
El Dorado, legend of, 60 ; search
for, 69
Eleuthera, position, 3 ; description,
120
El Zanjón, treaty of, 181
English Harbour, 307
Equatorial current, cause and
effect, 17
Esnambuc, French adventurer,
visits St. Kitt’s, 74, 312 ; takes
Martinique, 77, 332
Española, name given by Columbus
to island of Haiti, 39,
255
Esperanza, 192
Esquivel, Juan de, takes possession
of Jamaica, 55, 209
Etang du Vieux Bourg, 353
Evangelita, name given by Columbus
to the Isle of Pines,
134. 141.
“ Ever Faithful Isle,” origin of
term, 145
Eyre, Governor, suppresses insurrection
in Jamaica, 218
F
Fajardo, 260, 262, 277
Falmouth, 200, 222
Fauna of islands in general, 22
Fer-de-lance, the, 320, 340
Ferdinand, King of Spain, desire
for conversion of heathen,
53 ; authorises making slaves
of Lucayans, 54
Femandina, name given by Columbus
to Long Island, 37 ;
name of Cuba at one time, 143
Fichilingos, 368
Filibuster, origin of term, 83
Fish, Hamilton, U. S. Secretary
of State, 180
Flora of islands in general, 22
Florida, 2 ; as Spanish possession,
72 ; visited by Ponce de
Leon, 268
Florida Straits, 15
Flushingers, in Tobago, 368
Formidable, flagship of Admiral
Rodney, 98, 333
Fort Amsterdam, 386
Fort-de-France Bay, 330
Fort-de-France, city, 335
Fort Gustave, 305
Fort William, 304
Fortune Island, 122
France, contests title of Spain
to islands, 71 ; contends for
possession in the Caribbees,
92-102 ; establishes colony on
Haiti, 235 ; share in St. Martin,
303 ; takes Guadeloupe,
323 ; Martinique, 332
Freebooter, 83
Froude, J. A., on origin of
“ Barbados,” 358
G
Galeota, Cape, 372
Garcia, Calixto, 188, 192, 198
Garcia, Manuel, 183
“ Gardens of the King,” 133'
“ Gardens of the Queen,” 44,
48, 134
Geffrard, General Fabre, 244
George Town, 352
Gibara, first landing-place of
Columbus in Cuba, 38, 161
Gibaros, 282
Golfo de la Balena, 370
Golfo de las Flechas, 40
Gomez, Maximo, 183, 192
Gonaive, Gulf of, 225
Gonzalez, Ignacio, 256
Gordon, leader of insurrection in
Jamaica, 218
Gordon, General W. W., 285
Government, of Bahamas, 126 ;
of Cuba, 145-149 ; of Jamaica,
215, 219; of Haiti, 246; of
Puerto Rico, 170, 271; of
Windward Islands Colony,
289 ; of Leeward Islands Colony,
290-293 ; of Gaudeloupe,
324 ; of Martinique, 336 ; of
Barbados, 359-363; of Trinidad,
382
Grand Bay, 304
Grand Etang, 350
Grande-Terre, 319
Grand Khan, misconceptions of
Columbus about the, 2, 38,
48
Gran Piedra, La, mountain in
Cuba, 130
Grant, President, message on
Cuba, 181
Grasse, Count de, French admiral,
battle with Rodney, 96,
98, 333
Great Abaco, 3, 119
Great Bahama, 3, 119