Great Britain, contests title of
Spain to islands, 71 ; contends
for possessions, 92-102
Great Cayemite, 227
Greater Antilles, what constitute,
4 ; area and population, 12 ;
connection with continent, 15;
separation, 16
Great Exuma, position, 4 ; description,
121
Great River, 203
Green Island, 200
Grenada, situation and extent,
11 ; discovery, 46 ; first settled,
78 ; contests over, 95-99 ; part
of Windward Islands Colony,
288, 289; description, 349-
354 i history, 351, 352 ; harbours,
352, 353 ; government
and people, 353, 354
Grenadines, situation and extent,
II ; part of Windward Islands
Colony, 288, 289 ; description,
348, 349
Grenville Bay, 352
Grey, Sir John, 323
Gros Islet, 333, 338
Grosse Montagne, 319
Guacanagari, cacique in Haiti,
39. 42
Guadeloupe, situation and extent,
9 ; origin of name, 41 ; first
occupation, 77; contests for
possession, 92, 94, 95, 99 ;
description, 318-322 ; history,
322, 323 ; population and government,
324
Guaimaro, 178
Guajaibon, Pan de, 130
Guanabacoa, city of Cuba, 156
Guanahani, native name of San
Salvador, or Watling Island,
37
Guanahatabibes, aboriginal tribe
in Cuba, 25
Guanica, 262, 276, 277, 284
Guantanamo, Velasquez lands
near, 56; American marines
land there, 196 ; General Miles
sails from, 284
Guarico, Indian village in Haiti,
39.
Guarionex, cacique of Samana,
45
Guayama, 276, 284
Guayanilla, 262
Guiana, first colonised, 71
Guichen, Count de, French admiral,
96
Guines, town in Cuba, 156
Gulf of Arrows, 40
Gulf of Gonaive, 225
Gulf of Mexico, how formed, 2 ;
once a plain, 13 ; depth, 15
Gulf of the Whale, 370
Gulf Stream, origin of, 18
Gustavia, 304
H
Haiti, island of, position and
extent, 15, 225 ; political division,
7 ; prehistoric relics,
25 ; aboriginal inhabitants, 29;
discovery by Columbus, 38 ;
original division and chiefs,
52 ; division between Spain
and France, 101, 235 ; slavery
in, 109, 110 ; size and contour,
225, 226 ; coast line and harbours,
226, 227 ; outlying isl-
lands, 227 ; mountains, 227-
229 ; rivers, 229, 230 ; lakes,
230, 231 ; minerals, 231, 232 ;
vegetation, 232; animals,
232 ; climate, 232, 233 ; earthquakes,
233 ; first settlements,
233. 234 ; the Spanish and
French colonies, 235, 236 ; effect
of the French Revolution,
236-238 ; Spanish colony
ceded to France, 238 ; under
the rule of Toussaint L’Ouverture,
238, 239 ; conflict for
independence, 239-242 ; establishment
of the Haitian Republic,
242
Haiti, Republic of, first established,
242 ; division and population,
243 ; revolutions and
Haiti, Republic of— Continued.
insurrections, 243—245 ; government,
246 ; character of
the population, 246, 247 ;
principal cities, 248, 249 ; foreign
trade, 249, 250
Hamilton, Alexander, 316
Hamilton, Lady, 316
Harbour Island, 120
Havana, destroyed by corsairs,
64 ; captured by English, 95 ;
founding of city, 142 ; taken
by British, 144 ; description,
153-156
Hawkins, Sir John, as a slave-
trader, 60, 65, 66 ; quarrel
with Drake and death, 67
Heinrich, Baldwin, 269
Henri I., “ King of the North,”
243
Henry, General Guy V., 285
Herrera, Spanish historian, 303
Heureaux, Ulisses, 256, 257
Hidalgos, Pass of, 43
Hindu coolies in Trinidad, 378,
379
Hippolyte, Louis Mod e st i n
Florvil, president of Haiti, 245
Hispaniola, Latinised form of
Española, 39, 52
Hobson, Lieutenant, 196
Holguin, caves near, 131 ; the
town, 161
Holland, her West Indian possessions,
102, 310, 311, 383-
388. See Netherlands
Homenage, Tower of, 253
Honduras, Sea of, 15
Honduras visited by Columbus,
48
Hood, Sir Samuel, 95, 98, 333
Hopetown, 119
Huevos, 372
Huguenots, in Tobago, 369
Hugues, Victor, 323
Humacao, 262, 277
Hurricane, how caused, 20 ; effects,
21 ; in Cuba, 140 ; in
Puerto Rico, 265 ; in Antigua,
309 ; in St. Lucia, 342 ; in St.
Vincent, 345 ; in Barbados,
366
I
Ile-à-Vache, 227
Inagua, Great and Little, 4,
122
Indian, why applied in America,
2
Indies, the, origin and application
of term, 1, 2
Inquisition, in Cuba, 148 ; excluded
from Trinidad, 377
Insurrections, in Cuba, 177-181,
183-191 ; of maroons in Jamaica,
212—214 ; of negroes
in Jamaica, 218 ; in Haiti,
237-240 ; of slaves in Martinique,
334
Isabela Segunda, 277
Isabella, city of, founded by
Columbus, 43, 45, 46
Isabella, name given by Columbus
to Crooked Island, 37
Isabella, Queen of Spain, disapproves
of making slaves of
natives of islands, 45
Islas del Pasaje, 260
“ Isle of Giants,” 386
Isle of Pines, 129, 134, 151
Jackson, Colonel, plundered
Santiago de la Vega, 209
Jacmel, 227
Jamaica, position and extent, 5,
199 ; original inhabitants, 28 ;
discovered by Columbus, 44 ;
first settlement, 55 ; taken by
the English, 79, 210 ; first
maroons, 90 ; contemplated
attack by De Grasse, 98 ; absentee
planters, 106 ; slavery
in, 107 ; effect of emancipation,
112, 216 ; coast line and
bays, 199, 200 ; outlying
islands, 201 ; mountains, 201,
202 ; rivers, 202, 203 ; miner