Guiana, 76

Lesseps, Ferdinand de, and his Panama scheme, 356

Lolonois, the great pirate, 101

Macatoa, reported a very rich city, 36

Madeirans imported into British Guiana, 327

Maltese imported into British Guiana, 327

Manoa, city of, fabulous residence of "El Dorado," 44

Margarita, 114, 152

Marino, Dictator of Venezuela, 283

Maroons or Simarons, 59, 211, 232

Martinez, Juan de, his report of "El Dorado," 43

Martinique, 116, 182, 238, 251, 259

Mauduit, Captain, murdered in the Haytian revolt, 262

Merrifield, Ralph, one of the first settlers in St. Kitt's, 85

Methodists, 295

Miranda, Francisco, leader of the revolution in Venezuela, 277, 347

Missionaries, Protestant, 295, 327

Montbar, the French pirate, 100

Montserrat, 161, 165, 249

Morgan, Captain (afterwards Sir Henry), the English buccaneer, 102, 177

Morgan, Colonel, 162

Morillo, Marshal, Spanish leader in Venezuela, 284

_Navio de permisso_, 199

Negro slavery, 52, 59, 139, 156, 210

Negroes, free, difficulties with, 329

Nelson, Lord,
flying trip to the West Indies, 254;
his expedition to Nicaragua, 346

Nevis, 161, 249

New Edinburgh, 192

New Granada, 32, 33, 281, 288

New World, 1

Nicaragua and the canal scheme, 288, 346, 351, 355, 362

North, Roger, a settler in Guiana, 83, 85

_Nueva Dorado_, 70

Ojeda, Alonzo de, 27

Omaguas, reported a rich nation, 36

Ophir, 15, 23

Ordas, Diego de, explores the Orinoco, 43

Orders in Council, 300

Orr, John Sayers, "the Angel Gabriel," creates a disturbance in
Demerara, 335

Ouverture, Toussaint L', leader of the Haytian negroes, 268

Oxenham or Oxnam, John, crosses the Isthmus, 61

Oyapok, English colonies in the, 76, 83

Panama, 186, 347, 350

Panama Canal, 347, 353, 355

Panama Railway, 352

Parima Lake, 33

Paterson, William, and the Darien scheme, 188

Penn and Venables, Generals, expedition to the West Indies, 130

Perez, Diego, a gallant Spaniard, 50

Petion, President of Hayti, 274, 285

Philips, Miles, an English prisoner in Mexico, 58

Pirates in the West Indies, 49, 90

Pitman, Henry, a bond-servant, 150

Pitt, in favour of a Panama Canal, 347

Plantations, 143, 154, 291

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