tavita, Lake of, 32

Guatemala, 288

Guiana, 23, 69

Guianians, 44

Guichen, Admiral de, 241, 249

Gueiria, 282

Guzman, Fernando de, 38

Haiti, Hayti, or Hispaniola,
its inhabitants, 3;
colonised, 11;
gold found, 11;
almost ruined by becoming depopulated, 21;
a resort of buccaneers, 91;
under the French, 251;
downfall, 257;
British invasion, 268;
republics and empires, 274

Hall, Captain, exploit of, 206

Harcourt, Robert, in Guiana, 76

Harry, a Guiana Indian, in London, 77, 78

Hartop, Job, a prisoner in Mexico, 58

Havana,
ransomed, 50;
sacked and burnt, 51

Hawkins, Sir John,
first voyage, 53;
second, 54;
third, 57;
final trip with Drake, and death, 65

Hawkins, William, voyage to Brazil, 52

Hennessy, Governor John Pope, of Barbados, 341, 345

Henri I. (Christophe), Emperor of Hayti, 274

Henry VIII. of England sends an expedition to the West Indies, 49

Herera, Alonzo de, 45

Hogs naturalised in Hispaniola, see Haiti

Hondo river, 250

Hood, Sir Samuel, 238

Hoogenheim, Wolfert Simon van, Governor of Berbice, 218

Huten, Philip von, an "El Dorado" seeker, 36

Iala, Father, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45

Indian, character of, 1

Jackson, Colonel, captures Santiago de la Vega, 116

Jacques I. (Dessalines), Emperor of Hayti, 274

Jamaica,
Valdivia wrecked off the coast, 30;
attacked by Colonel Jackson, 116;
captured by English, 131;
Spanish attempt to recapture, 133;
the first real British colony, 136;
progress of, 155;
authorities refuse help to the Darien colony, 193;
slave revolts, 214;
serious negro insurrection, 338

James I.,
friendship for Spain, 82, 114;
dispute with Spain about the West Indies and Virginia, 113

Jeffreys, Judge, sends prisoners to Barbados, 150

Jenkins, Captain, and his ear, 202

Jervis, Admiral Sir John, 251

Jews in the West Indies, 239, 245

Keymis, Captain, a follower of Ralegh, 74, 77-9, 81

Kyk-over-al, Dutch fort in Essequebo, 76

Labour difficulties, 14, 137, 321

Lafayette, 260

Lawrence, Captain, an English pirate, 99

Legrand, Pierre, a French pirate, 99

Leigh, Charles, first English settler in