Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuban Assembly
at, 198
Santa Gloria, name given by
Columbus to St. Ann Bay, 49
Santa Maria, one of the vessels
of Columbus, 35 ; wrecked,
39
Santa Maria de la Concepcion,
name given by Columbus to
Rum Cay, 37
Santana, General Pedro, 255
Santiago, name given by Columbus
to Jamaica, 44 > at one
time name of Cuba, 143
Santiago de Cuba, city, Cortez
sails from, 56 ; corsair enters
harbour, 64 ; founding of, 141 ;
description of, 159-161
Santiago de Cuba, province, 153
Santiago de la Vega, original
name of Spanish Town, 56,
200, 209 ; attacked by English,
93 ; plundered by the
English, 209
Santiago de los Caballeros, 252
Santocildes, Spanish general,
185
Santo Domingo, city, founded,
46, 47 ; capital of Española,
52 ; attacked by Drake, 67,
234 ; Cuban conspirators in,
183 ; description of, 253, 254
Santo Domingo, province of,
252
Santo Domingo, Republic of,
area and population, 251 ; provinces
and districts, 252 ; character
of the five provinces, 252,
253 ; the capital city, 253, 254 ;
character of the northern districts,
254, 255 ; history, 255,
256 ; government, 257 ; religion
and education, 257 ; industrial
and commercial condition, 257,
258
Santo Domingo, Spanish colony
in Haiti, 235
Santo Espíritu, 141, 158
Santo Tomas de Yanico, 43
Saona, island, 227
Sargasso Sea, 36
Savana la Mar, 200
Schley, W. S., U. S. naval
officer, 195, 285
Schottegat, the, 386
Schwan, General, 284, 285
“ Scotland,” in Barbados, 355
Serpent Mouth, 370
“ Seven Years’ War,” effect in
West Indies, 94 ; capture of
Havana during, 144
Sevilla, in Cuba, 196
Sevilla d’ Oro, first town in
Jamaica, 55, 209
Seville, Columbus goes to, 49
Seybo, province of, 254
Shatter, Gen. Wm. R., 196
Shirley, Sir A., attack upon
Jamaica, 209
Siboney, landing-place of American
troops, 196
Sickles, General, U. S. Minister
at Madrid, 180
Sierra Cayey, 261
Sierra de Cibao, 227
Sierra del Cobre, 129
Sierra Maestra, 129
Simpson’s Lagoon, 304
Slavery, first introduced, 59, 60 ;
character and history, 103-
114; in Jamaica, 216, 218;
in Haiti, 234, 235, 238 : in
Puerto Rico, 269 ; in Barbados,
361, 362 ; in Tobago,
369
Slave trade, beginning of, 59-
61 ; history of, 103-109 ; in
Jamaica, 216 ; in Barbados, 360
Soles de Bolivar, 173
Sombrero, 8, 302
Soto, Hernando de, 143
Soufrière, or Solfatara, in Montserrat,
317 ; in Gaudeloupe,
333. 334 I in St. Lucia, 339 ;
in St. Vincent, 343
Soulouque, General Faustin, 244
South America, islands attached
to, i i ; immigrants from, 25 ;
slighted by Columbus, 371 ;
observed by Vespucci, 371
Spain, title to western lands, 51 ;
colonies at end of sixteenth
century, 69 ; rights in West
Indies contested, 71 ; exclusive
claims abandoned, 92;
contests with England, France,
and Holland, 92-102 ; loss of
colonies, 101 ; effect of trade
policy in Cuba, 163 ; at war
with United States, 195 ; end
of sovereignty in western
hemisphere, 198 ; evacuates
Puerto Rico, 285
“ Spanish Main,” 60, 104
Spanish Town, 222
Sugar-cane, introduced by Columbus,
104 ; effect upon
slavery, 105; cultivation in
Cuba, 144
T
Teach, Edward, the pirate
“ Blackbeard,” 87, 125, 384
Testigos, 384
Thelemaque, General, 245
Thomas in the Vale, 203
Tierra Adentro, 140
Tison, Thomas, English trader,
To6b3a cco, first cu,l ti• vati■on, 105 ;
in Cuba, 144
Tobago, position, 6 ; extent, 11;
first occupation, 78 ; ceded to
Great Britain, 95 ; part of
Windward Islands Colony,
288, 289; description, 367,
368 ; history, 368, 369 ; Crusoe’s
island, 369
Toledo, Don Frederic de, 313
“ Tongue of the Ocean,” 4,
116
Tordesillas, treaty of, 51, 71
Tornado, Spanish cruiser, 179
Tortola, one of Virgin Islands,
8 ; first occupied, 76 ; description,
294
Tortuga, near Haiti, seized by
refugees, 75 ; headquarters of
buccaneers, 82 ; taken by
French, 83 ; position and extent,
227
Tortuga, near Margarita, 384
Toussaint L’Ouverture, François
Dominique, 238-240
Trade-winds, how caused, 19 ;
general effect, 20
Trelawney, Governor, treaty
with the maroons, 212
Trelawney Reservation, 213
Trelawney Town, 213
Trinidad, city in Cuba, 141, 158
Trinidad, island, position, 6 ; extent,
11 ; discovery and name,
46, 370 ; visited by Raleigh,
70, 376 ; first settled, 79 ; description,
37°~375 ! history,
376-378 ; people and products,
378, 379 ! ports and towns,
380, 381,; government, 382
Trocha, crossing Cuba, 130, 152;
military line, Jucaro— Moron,
185 ; Mariel— Majana, 187
T rois Islets, 337
Tucutche, mountain in Trinidad,
372
Turks, islands, situation, 4 ;
relics of aborigines, 27 ; description,
122, 123 ; political
connection, 127
Twelve League Keys, 134
U
United States, first possession in
West Indies, 101 ; at war with
Spain, 195 ; takes possession
of Cuba, 198 ; takes possession
of Puerto Rico, 286
Utrecht, treaty of, 94, 313
Utuado, 263, 275
V
Vale of Bath, 203
Valladolid, church in, 308
Valmaseda, Count, Spanish general
in Cuba, 178
Van Horne, buccaneer, 86
Vega Real, 52, 229 ; description,
254. 255