Drake, Sir Francis, voyage with Hawkins, 57; raid on Nombre de Dios, 59; great expedition to the West Indies, 63; captures St. Domingo, 64; last voyage, 65; death, 65 Drax, Colonel, 120 Du Casse, a French corsair, 177 Dudley, Sir Robert, 66 Dutch, 67, 75, 84, 86, 115, 129, 166 Edwards, Bryan, 157 Eiffel, M., 360 "El Dorado," the quest for, 23; dangers, 24; germ of the story, 32; Martinez' report, 44 Elizabeth, Queen, 67 Emancipation, Great Britain, 289; France, 310; Denmark, 312; Holland, 313; Spain, 313 Enambuc, M. d', first French settler, 87-8, 116 Enciso, Bachelor, 29 English and Dutch, 67, 68, 114 Essequebo, 213 Everson, a Dutch pirate, 177 Eyre, Governor of Jamaica, 339 Fedreman, Nicholas, an "El Dorado" seeker, 35 Ferdinand and Isabella, kind feelings towards the Indians, 10; grant from the Pope, 48 Fontaine, Father, a Catholic missionary, 134 Fontaine, M., a Panama defaulter, 360 Fourgeaud, Colonel, 227 Franklin, Washington, 294 Free trade, 324 French, in the West Indies, 49-51, 87; company for settling the islands, 116; character of, 167; revolution, its influence on Hayti, effect on the Spanish Main, 276 George of Spires, an "El Dorado" seeker, 35 German knights in Venezuela, 33 Gold-hunting, 11, 15, 23, 29, 73 Gordon, Mr., a Member of the Jamaica Assembly, executed, 340 Grasse, Count de, 241, 249 Grenada, 238 Groenwegel, Commander of Essequebo, 86 Guadeloupe, 238, 251 _Guanin_, 23 Guatavita, Lake of, 32 Guatemala, 288 Guiana, 23, 69 Guianians, 44 Guichen, Admiral de, 241, 249 Güiria, 282 Guzman, Fernando de, 38 Haïti, Hayti, or Hispaniola, its inhabitants, 3; colonised, 11; gold found, 11; almost ruined by becoming depopulated, 21; a resort of buccaneers, 91; under the French, 251; downfall, 257; British invasion, 268; republics and empires, 274 Hall, Captain, exploit of, 206 Harcourt, Robert, in Guiana, 76 Harry, a Guiana Indian, in London, 77, 78 Hartop, Job, a prisoner in Mexico, 58 Havana, ransomed, 50; sacked and burnt, 51 Hawkins, Sir John, first voyage, 53; second, 54; third, 57; final trip with Drake, and death, 65 Hawkins, William, voyage to Brazil, 52 Hennessy, Governor John Pope, of Barbados, 341, 345 Henri I. (Christophe), Emperor of Hayti, 274 Henry VIII. of England sends an expedition to the West Indies, 49 Herera, Alonzo de, 45 Hogs naturalised in Hispaniola, see Haïti Hondo river, 250 Hood, Sir Samuel, 238 Hoogenheim, Wolfert Simon van, Governor of Berbice, 218 Huten, Philip von, an "El Dorado" seeker, 36