Velasques, Diego, first colonises
Cuba, 56, 141, 161
Venables, Admiral, with Penn,
captures Jamaica, 79, 210, 360
Venezuela, earthquake, 343, 344 ;
named by Vespucci, 371 ; islands
off, 383-388
Vera Cruz, attacked by buccaneers,
86
Veragua, 48
Versailles, treaty of, 99, 323, 328,
369
Versalles, suburb of Matanzas,
156 Vespucci, Amerigo, 371
Vieques, 6, 260, 272, 277
Villalobos, Marceto, 384
Ville de Paris, flagship of Count
de Grasse, 98
Virgin Gorda, one, of Virgin
Islands, 8, 294
Virgin Islands, situation, 6 ; discovery
and name, 42 ; resort
of buccaneers, 84; description
287, 293-295 ; part of Leeward
Islands Colony, 290-292
"Virginias affair,” the, 179,180
Virgin Passage, 277, 287
Volcanic eruption, 343
Volunteers, Cuban, 177
Vuelta Abajo, 140
Vuelta Arriba, 140
W
Walpole, General, 214
War, effect of, upon the possession
of islands, 92-102 ; that
between the United States and
Spain, 194-197
Warner, Sir Thomas, colonises
islands, 74, 75, 308, 312
Watling Island, position, 3 ; San
Salvador of Columbus, 37 ;
description, 122
Watts, governor of St. Kitt’s, 313
West End, 300. 301
West Indies, origin of the term,
2; area and population, 12;
process of discovery, 35—50;
first introduction of African
slaves, 60 ; first English settlement,
74 ; buccaneering and
piracy in, 86; Spain’s claims
contested, 92 ; final division,
101, 102 ; slavery in, 103-114 ;
enigma of their future destiny,
389-396
West Mountain, 295
Weyler, General, governor-general
of Cuba, 187-190
Willemstad, 386
Willoughby, Lord, receives grant
from Charles II., 75 ; governor
of Barbados, 93, 360;
grantee of Antigua, 309
Wilson, Genera], 285
Windward Islands, origin and
application of term, 6, 7, 288
Windward Islands Colony, 288,
289; connection of Tobago
with, 369
Windward Passage, 5, 16
Wood, General Leonard, 197
X
Xaragua, 52
Xaymaca, 44
Y
Yaqui, river in Haiti, 52, 229
Yara, town in Cuba, 178
Yauco, town in Puerto Rico,
276, 284
Yucatan, 2 ; original inhabitants,
27 ; visited by Columbus, 48
Yucatan Channel, 15
\ ucayos, or Lucayos, characteristics,
26
Yumuri, river in Cuba, 156
Yunque, El, de Baracoa, 130
Yunque, El, de Luquillo, 261
Z
Zapata, marsh in Cuba, 152
Zatucha, Dr., 189
Zeta, name given by Columbus
to South American coast, 371
Zocapa, fortress, 160
Heroes of the Nations.
EDITED BY
EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A.,
F e l l o w o f B a l l io l C o l l e g e , O x f o r d .
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