Slaves, Indian, 19; negro, 52, 59, 139, 156, 210, 289; white (bond-servants), 146; insurrections, 213, 294, 302; abolition of the African trade, 255, 289; runaways, 210; Registrar and Protector of, 293; emancipation of, 309; reviews of slavery, 289 Smith, Rev. John, a missionary sentenced to death in connection with a slave revolt, 303-6 South Sea Bubble, 187, 196 Spain, character of her people, 9; introducing Christianity, 9; wanton cruelty to the natives, 18; hardiness of Spaniards, 25; their audacity, 30; Spanish claim to supremacy, 114; interference with their trade, 133; Spanish cruelty to prisoners of war, 171 "Spiriting" or kidnapping white servants, 146; made felony 147 Sugar cane, 19, 141 Suicides, 18 Surinam, 161, 165, 167, 171, 179 Sylva, Gaspar de, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45 Tison, Thomas, first English trader to West Indies, 49 Tobacco, 141 Tobago, 115, 238, 251 Toledo, Don Frederic de, captures St. Kitt's, 114 Tortuga, the great rendezvous of the buccaneers, 95, 102, 165 Trade forced upon the Spanish settlers, 53, 57 Transported convicts, 147 Treasure seeking, 23 Trelawny Town, 232 Tribute imposed on natives, 15 Trinidad, 70, 328 Ursua, Pedro de, murdered by the tyrant Aguirre, 38 Utrecht, treaty of, 196 Valdivia, his shipwreck, 30 Van Horn the pirate, 103 Vanderbilt Transit Company, 351 Venables and Penn, Generals, their expedition, 130 Venezuela, the treasure seekers in, 23; her struggle for independence, 277 Vernon, Admiral, 204, 205, 337 Virgin Islands, 96 Virginia, 113 Wafer, Lionel, his journey across the Isthmus, 105 Walker, William, the modern filibuster, 352 Walrond, Colonel, a "Cavalier" in Barbados, 121 Warner, Thomas, founder of the colony of St. Kitt's, 84, 85, 88 Wars, England and Spain, 63, 114, 130; Holland and Spain, 87, 114; France and Spain, 116; England and Holland, 129, 160; England and France against Holland and Spain, 170; France against England and Holland, 177; Spain, England, and Holland against France, 178; England and Holland against France and Spain, 195; England and Spain, 203; England and her revolted colonies, 241; France, Spain, and Holland join in the quarrel, 243; commencement of the great French war, 251; England and the United States, 255 Watts, Governor, of St. Kitt's, 162 Welsers of Augsburg, 33 West India Company of Holland, 87 William III. and the Darien scheme, 194 Willoughby, Lord, Governor of Barbados, 122, 124-8, 164 Wyse, M., a Panama Canal projector, 356 [Illustration] The Gresham Press, UNWIN BROTHERS, WOKING AND LONDON.