"Soles de Bolivar," II, 341; attempts to suppress, 343. Solorzano, Juan del Hoya, I, 337; II, 10. Someruelos, Marquis of, Governor, II, 196, 301. Sores, Jacques, French raider, II, 183; attacks Havana, 184; captures city, 186. Soto, Antonio de, I, 292. Soto, Diego de, I, 109, 217. Soto, Hernando de, Governor and Adelantado, I, 140; portrait, 140; arrival in Cuba, 141; tour of island, 142; makes Havana his home, 144; chiefly interested in Florida, 144; sails for Florida, 145; his fate in Mississippi, 147; trouble with Indians, 148. Soto, Lady Isabel de, I, 141; her vigil at La Fuerza, 147; death, 149. Soto, Luis de, I, 141. Soulé, Pierre, Minister to Spain, III, 137; Indiscretions, 138; Ostend Manifesto, 142. South Sea Company, II, 21, 201. Spain: Fiscal policy toward Cuba, I, 175; wars with France, 177; discriminations against Cuba, 266, 267; protests against South Sea Company, II, 22; course in American Revolution, 143; war with Great Britain, 151; attitude toward America, 159; peace with Great Britain, 162; restrictive laws, 224; policy under Godoy, 265; decline of power, 273; seeks to pawn Cuba to Great Britain for loan, 330; protests to United States against Lopez's expedition, III, 59; seeks British protection, 129; refuses to sell Cuba, 135; revolution against Bourbon dynasty, 145 et seq.; rejects suggestion of American mediation in Cuba, 219; seeks American mediation, 293; strives to placate Cuba, IV, 5; crisis over Cuban affairs, 35; attitude toward War of Independence, 40; considers Autonomy, 71; Cabinet crisis of 1897, 88; proposes joint investigation of Maine disaster, 100; at war with United States, 106; makes Treaty of Paris, relinquishing Cuba, 118. Spanish-American War: causes of, IV, 105; declared, 106; blockade of Cuban coast, 110; landing of American army in Cuba, 111; fighting near Santiago, 112; fort at El Caney, picture, 112; San Juan Hill, battle, 113; San Juan Hill, picture of monument, 114; naval battle of Santiago, 115; peace negotiations, 116; "Peace Tree," picture, 116; treaty of peace, 118. Spanish literature in XVI century, I, 360. Spotorno, Juan Bautista, seeks peace, rebuked by Maso, IV, 35. Steinhart, Frank, American consul, advises President Palma to ask for American aid, IV, 271; correspondence with State Department, 272. Stock raising, early attention to, I, 173, 224; development of, 220. Stokes, W. E. D., aids War of Independence, IV, 14. Students, murder of by Volunteers, III, 260. Suarez y Romero, Anselmo, III, 326.