Bond-servants, 149

Boyer, President of Hayti, 275

Brethren of the coast, 93

British Guiana, 328, 334

British Legion in Venezuela, 286

Bull of Partition,
its terms, 48;
disputed, 49;
practically revoked, 134

Bush negroes, 225

Buxton, Fowell, 300

Byam, Major, Governor of Surinam, 128

Byron, Admiral, 241, 242

Caciques of the Indians, their position, 4

California rush, 351

Campeachy, Bay of, 96, 200

Cannibals, 20, 31

Canning's declaration of neutrality, 285

Caribana, 75

Caribbee Islands, 20, 85

Caribs,
their character, 6;
cannibalism, 20, 31;
hatred of Spaniards, 20;
in Guiana, 23, 75;
in St. Kitt's, 88

Carlisle, Earl of, Grantee of Caribbee Islands, 85, 122

Carthagena,
taken by French, 178;
great fair, 184;
attacked by Admiral Vernon, 205

Cary, Colonel, favours the buccaneers, 165

Casas, Las, 46

Cassard, Jacques,
the corsair, 179;
captures St. Eustatius, 180;
Curacao, 181

Cattle, wild, 21

"Cavaliers" and "Roundheads" in Barbados, 119

Central American Republics, 288

Chagres, 352

Charbon, Jan Abraham, 219

Charles I. and the Colonies, 114

Charles II.
declared king in the Bermudas and Virginia, 117;
Barbados, 122;
his interest in the plantations, 135

Chinese labourers introduced, 327

Christianity forced on the natives, 8, 27

Christophe, a Haytian leader, 269, 274

Clervaux, a Haytian leader, 271

Clifford, Jeronomy, case of, 173

Cochrane, Admiral, 277

Codrington, Colonel, 119

Coffee, 143

Coffee, leader of rebel slaves in Berbice, 221, 223

Coke, John, 84

Colon, 352

Colonies, Spanish, in Hispaniola, 11, 14

Coloured people in Hayti, 257

Columbian Republic, 288

Columbus' opinion of the natives, 6

Confederation in Barbados, 341

Contraband trade with Spanish colonies, 53, 57, 201

Convict labour, 147

Coolies, East Indian, 327

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 147

Corsairs, 49, 177

Corteso, Juan, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45

Costa Rica, 288

Cottin, M., 360

Cotton, 15, 18, 141

Council for Plantations, 135, 146

Cromwell and the West Indies, 129

Cudjo, a maroon chief, 215