Slavery -- West Indies; Spanish Main; West Indies -- History
Bull of Partition,
its terms, 48;
disputed, 49;
practically revoked, 134
Bush negroes, 225
Buxton, Fowell, 300
Byam, Major, Governor of Surinam, 128
Byron, Admiral, 241, 242
Caciques of the Indians, their position, 4
California rush, 351
Campeachy, Bay of, 96, 200
Cannibals, 20, 31
Canning's declaration of neutrality, 285
Caribana, 75
Caribbee Islands, 20, 85
Caribs,
their character, 6;
cannibalism, 20, 31;
hatred of Spaniards, 20;
in Guiana, 23, 75;
in St. Kitt's, 88
Carlisle, Earl of, Grantee of Caribbee Islands, 85, 122
Carthagena,
taken by French, 178;
great fair, 184;
attacked by Admiral Vernon, 205
Cary, Colonel, favours the buccaneers, 165
Casas, Las, 46
Cassard, Jacques,
the corsair, 179;
captures St. Eustatius, 180;
Curaçao, 181
Cattle, wild, 21
"Cavaliers" and "Roundheads" in Barbados, 119
Central American Republics, 288
Chagres, 352
Charbon, Jan Abraham, 219
Charles I. and the Colonies, 114
Charles II.
declared king in the Bermudas and Virginia, 117;
Barbados, 122;
his interest in the plantations, 135
Chinese labourers introduced, 327
Christianity forced on the natives, 8, 27
Christophe, a Haytian leader, 269, 274
Clervaux, a Haytian leader, 271
Clifford, Jeronomy, case of, 173
Cochrane, Admiral, 277
Codrington, Colonel, 119
Coffee, 143
Coffee, leader of rebel slaves in Berbice, 221, 223
Coke, John, 84
Colon, 352
Colonies, Spanish, in Hispaniola, 11, 14
Coloured people in Hayti, 257
Columbian Republic, 288
Columbus' opinion of the natives, 6
Confederation in Barbados, 341
Contraband trade with Spanish colonies, 53, 57, 201
Convict labour, 147
Coolies, East Indian, 327
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 147
Corsairs, 49, 177
Corteso, Juan, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45
Costa Rica, 288
Cottin, M., 360
Cotton, 15, 18, 141
Council for Plantations, 135, 146
Cromwell and the West Indies, 129
Cudjo, a maroon chief, 215
Cuba, 20
Cullen, Dr. E., projector of the Darien Canal, 353
Curaçao, 115, 152, 165, 180, 238
Darbey, John, an English prisoner in Cuba, 171
Darien Canal, 353
Darien scheme, 188
Delgado, Augustine, an "El Dorado" seeker, 46
Demerara, 213, 246, 252, 301
Dessalines,
a chief in the Haytian insurrection, 271;
crowned emperor, 274
Dogs,
hunt Indians, 16;
run wild, 22;
hunt maroons, 235;
hunt rebel negroes, 271
Dominica, 91, 116, 238, 241, 249
_Dominus Vobiscum_, one of the first English vessels in the West
Indies, 49
D'Oyley, Governor of Jamaica, 134
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