Education, backward state of, II, 244; progress under American occupation, IV, 156; A. E. Frye, Superintendent, 156; reorganization of system, 162; Harvard University's entertainment of teachers, 163; achievements under President Menocal, 357. Elections: for municipal officers under American occupation, IV, 180; law for regulation of, 180; result, 181; for Constitutional Convention, 186; for general officers, 240; result, 244; Presidential, 1906, 265; new law, 287; local elections under Second Intervention, 289; Presidential, 290; for Congress in 1908, 303; Presidential, 1912, 309; Presidential, 1916, disputed, 330, result confirmed, 341. Enciso, Martin F. de, first Spanish writer about America, I, 54. Epidemics: putrid fever, 1649, I, 290; vaccination introduced, II, 192; small pox and yellow fever, III, 313; at Santiago, IV, 142; Gen. Wood applies Dr. Finlay's theory of yellow fever, 171; success, 176; malaria, 177. Escudero, Antonio, de, II, 10. Espada, Juan José Diaz, portrait, facing II, 272. Espagnola. See HISPANIOLA. Espeleta, Joaquin de, Governor, II, 362. Espinosa, Alonzo de Campos, Governor, I, 316. Espoleto, José de, Governor, II, 169. Estenoz, Negro insurgent, IV, 307. Estevez, Luis, Secretary of Justice, IV, 160; Vice-President, 245. Evangelista. See ISLE OF PINES. Everett, Edward, policy toward Cuba, III, 130. "Ever Faithful Isle," II, 268, 304. Exquemeling, Alexander, author and pirate, I, 302. "Family Pact," of Bourbons, effect upon Cuba, II, 42. Felin, Antonio, Bishop, II, 172. Fels, Cornelius, defeated by Spanish, I, 288. Ferdinand, King, policy toward Cuba, I, 56; esteem for Velasquez, 73. Ferdinandina, Columbus's landing place, I, 3; name for Cuba, 73. Ferrara, Orestes, Liberal leader, IV, 260; revolutionist, 269; deprecates factional strife, 306; revolutionary conspirator in New York, 334; warned by U. S. Government, I, 239. Ferrer, Juan de, commander of La Fuerza, I, 239. Figueroa, Vasco Porcallo de, I, 72; De Soto's lieutenant, 142; returns from Florida in disgust, 145. Figuerosa, Rojas de, captures Tortuga, I, 292. Filarmonia, riot at ball, III, 119. Filibustering, proclamation of United States against, III, 42; after Ten Years' War, 311, in War of Independence, IV, 20; expeditions intercepted, 52; many successful expeditions, 69; warnings, 70. Fine Arts, II, 240. Finlay, Carlos G., theory of yellow fever successfully applied under General Wood, IV, 171; portrait, facing, 172.