Harry, a Guiana Indian, in London, 77, 78
Havana, ransomed, 50; sacked and burnt, 51
Hawkins, Sir John, first voyage, 53; second, 54; third, 57; final trip with Drake, and death, 65
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
Hogs naturalised in Hispaniola, see Haïti
Hoogenheim, Wolfert Simon van, Governor of Berbice, 218
Huten, Philip von, an "El Dorado" seeker, 36
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
Keymis, Captain, a follower of Ralegh, 74, 77-9, 81
Leigh, Charles, first English settler in Guiana, 76
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, and his Panama scheme, 356
Madeirans imported into British Guiana, 327
Maltese imported into British Guiana, 327
Manoa, city of, fabulous residence of "El Dorado," 44
Martinez, Juan de, his report of "El Dorado," 43
Mauduit, Captain, murdered in the Haytian revolt, 262
Merrifield, Ralph, one of the first settlers in St. Kitt's, 85
Miranda, Francisco, leader of the revolution in Venezuela, 277, 347
Morgan, Captain (afterwards Sir Henry), the English buccaneer, 102, 177
Morillo, Marshal, Spanish leader in Venezuela, 284
Nelson, Lord, flying trip to the West Indies, 254; his expedition to Nicaragua, 346
Nicaragua and the canal scheme, 288, 346, 351, 355, 362
North, Roger, a settler in Guiana, 83, 85
Ordas, Diego de, explores the Orinoco, 43
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
Paterson, William, and the Darien scheme, 188
Penn and Venables, Generals, expedition to the West Indies, 130
Philips, Miles, an English prisoner in Mexico, 58