"The work has begun, and we can only hope that it will succeed. There cannot be too many gates of communication between different peoples. The United States undertake to open this. Can they do it, and doing it, will they give up the advantages they will thereby acquire? The future will show." [Illustration] INDEX. Acosta, Pedro de, explorer of the Orinoco, 43 African slavery, 157 Aguirre the Tyrant, 38 Alfinger, Ambrosio de, searches for "El Dorado," 34 Altienza, Donna Inez de, murdered by Aguirre, 39 Amazon Company, 83 Amazon, expedition of Ursua and Aguirre, 38 American Indian, his character, 1 _Amis des Noirs_, 257 "Angel Gabriel," John Sayers Orr, rouses the negroes of Demerara, 335 Antigua, 165 Anti-slavery party, 289, 298 Apprenticeship, negro, 306 Araby, a leader of bush negroes, 227 Arawaks, their character, 2; Columbus tries to enslave them, 9; the Spanish sovereign's good feeling for them, 9; their treatment by the first colonists, 11; did not lay up provisions, 12; thinks Spaniards gods, 12; refuse to be slaves, 18; die off in great numbers, 18; in Guiana, 23, 75 Araya, Dutch at, 75 Armada, Spanish, 63, 64 Aruba, 277 Aspinwall, 352 _Assiento_ contract to supply slaves, 196 Ayscue, Sir George, reduces Barbados for the Parliament, 124 Bahamas, natives kidnapped, 19; settled by English, 86; resort of buccaneers, 96; captured by Spaniards, 117 Baïhaut, M., bribed by Panama Canal Company, 361 Bannister, Major, English Governor of Surinam, 169 Barbados, first colonised, 85; protests against grant to Earl of Carlisle, 117; result of the English revolution, 117; Charles II. proclaimed king, 122; Sir George Ayscue arrives to subdue the island, 124; attack on Hole Town, 126; the island surrenders, 128; sufferings of a bond-servant in, 151; De Ruyter driven off from, 161; its unique position, 208; negro plots, 213; anti-slavery insurrection, 293; result of emancipation, 328; confederation disturbances, 341 Barker, Andrew, a rover, 62 Baron, a bush negro chief, 229 Basco, Michael de, a buccaneer, 99, 102 Baskerville, Sir Thomas, a companion of Drake, 65 Beaudierre, Mons. de, a sympathiser with the coloured people of Hayti, 259 Berbice, supplies cut off during war, 170; captured by French corsairs, 178, 179; great slave insurrection, 218 Belize, 250 Berrie, one of Ralegh's captains, 74 Berrio, Antonio de, Spanish Governor of Trinidad, 69 Bolivar, Simon, Liberator of Venezuela, 279 Bond-servants, 149 Boyer, President of Hayti, 275 Brethren of the coast, 93 British Guiana, 328, 334 British Legion in Venezuela, 286