, 139, 156, 210, 289;
white (bond-servants), 146;
insurrections, 213, 294, 302;
abolition of the African trade, 255, 289;
runaways, 210;
Registrar and Protector of, 293;
emancipation of, 309;
reviews of slavery, 289

Smith, Rev. John, a missionary sentenced to death in connection with
a slave revolt, 303-6

South Sea Bubble, 187, 196

Spain,
character of her people, 9;
introducing Christianity, 9;
wanton cruelty to the natives, 18;
hardiness of Spaniards, 25;
their audacity, 30;
Spanish claim to supremacy, 114;
interference with their trade, 133;
Spanish cruelty to prisoners of war, 171

"Spiriting" or kidnapping white servants, 146;
made felony 147

Sugar cane, 19, 141

Suicides, 18

Surinam, 161, 165, 167, 171, 179

Sylva, Gaspar de, an "El Dorado" seeker, 45

Tison, Thomas, first English trader to West Indies, 49

Tobacco, 141

Tobago, 115, 238, 251

Toledo, Don Frederic de, captures St. Kitt's, 114

Tortuga, the great rendezvous of the buccaneers, 95, 102, 165

Trade forced upon the Spanish settlers, 53, 57

Transported convicts, 147

Treasure seeking, 23

Trelawny Town, 232

Tribute imposed on natives, 15

Trinidad, 70, 328

Ursua, Pedro de, murdered by the tyrant Aguirre, 38

Utrecht, treaty of, 196

Valdivia, his shipwreck, 30

Van Horn the pirate, 103

Vanderbilt Transit Company, 351

Venables and Penn, Generals, their expedition, 130

Venezuela,
the treasure seekers in, 23;
her struggle for independence, 277

Vernon, Admiral, 204, 205, 337

Virgin Islands, 96

Virginia, 113

Wafer, Lionel, his journey across the Isthmus, 105

Walker, William, the modern filibuster, 352

Walrond, Colonel, a "Cavalier" in Barbados, 121

Warner, Thomas, founder of the colony of St. Kitt's, 84, 85, 88

Wars,
England and Spain, 63, 114, 130;
Holland and Spain, 87, 114;
France and Spain, 116;
England and Holland, 129, 160;
England and France against Holland and Spain, 170;
France against England and Holland, 177;
Spain, England, and Holland against France, 178;
England and Holland against France and Spain, 195;
England and Spain, 203;
England and her revolted col