uction of.

Autonomy granted to Puerto Rico.

Bastidas, Bishop Rodrigo, charged
with liberating Indian slaves in
Puerto Rico.

Beet-sugar, its injurious
competition with cane-sugar, 228.

Bemini (Florida), island of, King
Ferdinand wants Ponce to explore
it, 59; Indian reports of, 60;
discovery of, 61.

Blake, English admiral, captures
Spanish galleons, 136.

Blasquez, Juan, judge-auditor of
Puerto Rico, 102.

Boabdil, last of the Moorish kings.

Boriquen, first known name of
Puerto Rico; seat of Guaybana; Boriquenos
restless; revolt in; last of the Boriquen
Indians; the republic of, proclaimed; falls;
native inhabitants of.

Bowdoin, Hendrick, commands
Dutch fleet in attack on San Juan.

Brau, his history of Puerto Rico quoted.

Bruckman, an American, takes
active part in insurrection;
shot.

Buccaneers, their origin.

Cacao.

Cannibals, supposed to be found among
the Caribs.

Caparra, first settlement of Spaniards
in Puerto Rico; capital transferred
from, to San Juan; the old capital.

Capital, transferred from Caparra to Sun Juan.

Caribs, supposed by Columbus to be
on Guadeloupe; annoy Spaniards in Puerto
Rico; assist the Boriquen Indians; raids in
Puerto Rico; in Dominica punished by the
Spaniards; in the Windward Islands; their
extermination of aborigines of the West
Indies; origin of; characteristics; were they
cannibals?; disappearing.

Castellano y Villaroya, Spanish Colonial
Minister, intercedes in behalf of Puerto
Rico.

Castellanos, Juan, brings 75 colonists
to Puerto Rico; attorney for Puerto
Rico at the court of Spain.

Castellanos, Juan de, treasurer of Puerto Rico.

Castro, Baltazar, reports depredations of Caribs.

Ceron, Juan, Governor of Puerto Rico;
arrested by Juan Ponce;
restored to office;
returns to Puerto Rico as governor.

Cervantes de Loayza, governor.

Charles V, King of Spain;
quarrels with Francis I of France;
orders the fortification of San German.

Cholera, epidemic of.

Church, in general.

Cities, growth of.

Clergy;
the island made a diocese;
Alon