Iala, Father, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45 Indian, character of, 1 Jackson, Colonel, captures Santiago de la Vega, 116 Jacques I. (Dessalines), Emperor of Hayti, 274 Jamaica, Valdivia wrecked off the coast, 30; attacked by Colonel Jackson, 116; captured by English, 131; Spanish attempt to recapture, 133; the first real British colony, 136; progress of, 155; authorities refuse help to the Darien colony, 193; slave revolts, 214; serious negro insurrection, 338 James I., friendship for Spain, 82, 114; dispute with Spain about the West Indies and Virginia, 113 Jeffreys, Judge, sends prisoners to Barbados, 150 Jenkins, Captain, and his ear, 202 Jervis, Admiral Sir John, 251 Jews in the West Indies, 239, 245 Keymis, Captain, a follower of Ralegh, 74, 77-9, 81 Kyk-over-al, Dutch fort in Essequebo, 76 Labour difficulties, 14, 137, 321 Lafayette, 260 Lawrence, Captain, an English pirate, 99 Legrand, Pierre, a French pirate, 99 Leigh, Charles, first English settler in Guiana, 76 Lesseps, Ferdinand de, and his Panama scheme, 356 Lolonois, the great pirate, 101 Macatoa, reported a very rich city, 36 Madeirans imported into British Guiana, 327 Maltese imported into British Guiana, 327 Manoa, city of, fabulous residence of "El Dorado," 44 Margarita, 114, 152 Marino, Dictator of Venezuela, 283 Maroons or Simarons, 59, 211, 232 Martinez, Juan de, his report of "El Dorado," 43 Martinique, 116, 182, 238, 251, 259 Mauduit, Captain, murdered in the Haytian revolt, 262 Merrifield, Ralph, one of the first settlers in St. Kitt's, 85 Methodists, 295 Miranda, Francisco, leader of the revolution in Venezuela, 277, 347 Missionaries, Protestant, 295, 327 Montbar, the French pirate, 100 Montserrat, 161, 165, 249 Morgan, Captain (afterwards Sir Henry), the English buccaneer, 102, 177 Morgan, Colonel, 162 Morillo, Marshal, Spanish leader in Venezuela, 284 _Navio de permisso_, 199 Negro slavery, 52, 59, 139, 156, 210 Negroes, free, difficulties with, 329 Nelson, Lord, flying trip to the West Indies, 254; his expedition to Nicaragua, 346 Nevis, 161, 249 New Edinburgh, 192 New Granada, 32, 33, 281, 288 New World, 1 Nicaragua and the canal scheme, 288, 346, 351, 355, 362 North, Roger, a settler in Guiana, 83, 85 _Nueva Dorado_, 70 Ojeda, Alonzo de, 27 Omaguas, reported a rich nation, 36 Ophir, 15, 23 Ordas, Diego de, explores the Orinoco, 43 Orders in Council, 300 Orr, John Sayers, "the Angel Gabriel," creates a disturbance in Demerara, 335 Ouverture, Toussaint L', leader of the Haytian negroes, 268 Oxenham or Oxnam, John, crosses the Isthmus, 61 Oyapok, English colonies in the, 76, 83