ry, 157

Aguirre the Tyrant, 38

Alfinger, Ambrosio de, searches for "El Dorado," 34

Altienza, Donna Inez de, murdered by Aguirre, 39

Amazon Company, 83

Amazon, expedition of Ursua and Aguirre, 38

American Indian, his character, 1

_Amis des Noirs_, 257

"Angel Gabriel," John Sayers Orr, rouses the negroes of Demerara, 335

Antigua, 165

Anti-slavery party, 289, 298

Apprenticeship, negro, 306

Araby, a leader of bush negroes, 227

Arawaks,
their character, 2;
Columbus tries to enslave them, 9;
the Spanish sovereign's good feeling for them, 9;
their treatment by the first colonists, 11;
did not lay up provisions, 12;
thinks Spaniards gods, 12;
refuse to be slaves, 18;
die off in great numbers, 18;
in Guiana, 23, 75

Araya, Dutch at, 75

Armada, Spanish, 63, 64

Aruba, 277

Aspinwall, 352

_Assiento_ contract to supply slaves, 196

Ayscue, Sir George, reduces Barbados for the Parliament, 124

Bahamas,
natives kidnapped, 19;
settled by English, 86;
resort of buccaneers, 96;
captured by Spaniards, 117

Baihaut, M., bribed by Panama Canal Company, 361

Bannister, Major, English Governor of Surinam, 169

Barbados,
first colonised, 85;
protests against grant to Earl of Carlisle, 117;
result of the English revolution, 117;
Charles II. proclaimed king, 122;
Sir George Ayscue arrives to subdue the island, 124;
attack on Hole Town, 126;
the island surrenders, 128;
sufferings of a bond-servant in, 151;
De Ruyter driven off from, 161;
its unique position, 208;
negro plots, 213;
anti-slavery insurrection, 293;
result of emancipation, 328;
confederation disturbances, 341

Barker, Andrew, a rover, 62

Baron, a bush negro chief, 229

Basco, Michael de, a buccaneer, 99, 102

Baskerville, Sir Thomas, a companion of Drake, 65

Beaudierre, Mons. de, a sympathiser with the coloured people of
Hayti, 259

Berbice,
supplies cut off during war, 170;
captured by French corsairs, 178, 179;
great slave insurrection, 218

Belize, 250

Berrie, one of Ralegh's captains, 74

Berrio, Antonio de, Spanish Governor of Trinidad, 69

Bolivar, Simon, Liberator of Venezuela, 279