nce, quarrel
with Charles V of Spain.

Franciscans, order of.

French, send privateers to attack the Antilles;
capture San German twice and destroy it;
attack Guayama; fail in an attack on Puerto
Rico; alliance with English against Spain;
pirates in the Caribbean.

Fuente, Alonso la, his letters to the
Spanish Government.

Ginger.

Gold, in Puerto Rico;
early search for; first discovery;
gold-bearing streams; production of
gold.

Government of Puerto Rico, instructions
by the King of Spain.

Guadeloupe, discovery of;
Caribs in, aid Puerto Rico Indians
against the Spaniards.

Guaybana, cacique in Puerto Rico;
death of.

Guaybana second, heads revolt against
the Spaniards; massacres Spaniards;
is defeated; killed.

Haro, Juan de, governor, defends San
Juan against the Dutch.

Havana, captured by the English under
the Earl of Albemarle and Admiral
Pocock.

Hawkyns, John, his freebooting
voyages among the Antilles; his fleet
captured; killed.

Holland, Spain's war with;
sends fleet against Puerto Rico;
it is defeated.

Hurricanes in the West Indies;
in Puerto Rico.

Indians, system of "distribution" of,
introduced; in revolt; slaughter Spaniards;
defeated by Ponce; number of, in Puerto Rico;
"distribution" of; rapid decrease of;
condition of; efforts to prevent extinction
of; "distribution" of, among settlers
forbidden; the last 80 survivors liberated
from slavery; last report of the Boriquen
Indians.

Inquisition, the, in Puerto Rico;
Nicolas Ramos, the last Inquisitor;
abolition of the Inquisition;
reestablished.

Isabel II, her decree declaring property
of the secular clergy national property.

Jews, property of, confiscated to supply
funds for Columbus's second expedition.

Jibaro, the Puerto Rican peasant;
customs of.

Lando, Governor of Puerto Rico, tries
to prevent persons leaving the island.

Lares, the insurrection of.

Las Casas, Bartolome de, his "Relations
of the Indies" cited; seeks to prevent
extinction of Indians; favors introduction of
negro slaves.

Laws, reform,