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INDEX 



Austria, beet-sngar, 77 



Aux Cayes, 364, 267, 869, 374, 376, 281 



Avcllaneda, Gertrudis Gomez de, 101 



Aves Island, 33, 24, 20 



Ay, Rio, 136 



Azores, 878; traders from, in Antigua, 325 



Azua de la Compostela, 247, 248, 259, 202 



Bacot, J. T. W., enumeration of the Ba- 

 hamas by, 22 



Bahama Banks, 13, 383 



Bahamas, 8, 10, 10, 18, 20-22, 24, 25, 35, 180, 233, 

 396-804, 307. 381, 382, 404 ; administration, 

 25, 375 ; altitude, 22 ; area, 18, 297 ; climate, 

 299, 301 ; connection with the American 

 Revolution, 300, 302; enumeration, 22; 

 fauna, 298, 299; finances, 300, 304; flora, 

 299,300; fruits, 300; industries and com- 

 merce, 300, 301, 303 ; occupied by England, 

 300; people, 301,302, 304; population, 18, 

 301-304; separation of Turks and Caicos 

 islands from, 304; slavery, 300; Spanish 

 raids on, 253 ; transportation, mail, and 

 cable communications, 301; water-supply, 

 299, 303 ; wreckers, 300 



Bahia Honda, 38, 03, 80, 118 



Baird, S. F., deep-sea explorations by, 14 



Baker, Captain, establishes the Boston Fruit 

 Company, 210 



Balaga Barracks, San Juan, 175 



Balearic Islands, relations to Spain, 09 



Baltimore, trade with Jamaica, 218, 223 



Bamboos : in Jamaica, 198 ; Martinique, 354 



Bamboula, the, 280 



Bananas, use of, 60, 61 : in Cuba, 76, 80, 81, 

 91, 133, 136; Haiti, 263. 272 ; Honduras, 228; 

 Jamaica, 188, 208, 210, 212, 214, 223, 228; 

 Martinique, 350; Nicaragua, 228; Porto 

 Rico, 100 ; St. Croix, 316 ; St. Kitts, 331 ; 

 Santo Domingo, 257, 272 



Bandruco Mountains, 244 



Banes, 132 



Banian-tree, in the Caribbees, 327, 331 



Bank of Guadeloupe, 341 



Bank of Spain and Porto Rico, 175 



Banks Strait, 9 



Baptists, in Jamaica, 207 



Baracoa, 41-43, 63, 64, 80, 81, 86, 124, 128, 132, 

 133, 136 



Barahona, 259 



Barahona Bay, 238, 244, 248 



Baraqui, 82 



Barbadian Antilles, 308 



Barbados, 7, 12, 15, 22-24, 26, 166, 211, 30?, 

 308, 312,373-381, 384,404; administration, 

 375 ; area, 19, 373, 376 ; boatmen, 376, 378, 

 379; chief justice, 392; climate, 374; the 

 Coddrington family, 321, 322; commerce 

 and shipping, 313, 314, 374-377, 379 ; com- 

 munications with New York, 406; cos- 

 tume, 378; education, 378; emigration, 

 370; geology, 374, 377; George Washing- 

 ton in, 377 ; military station, 376, 391 ; peo- 

 ple, 285, 377-379; population, 19, 376-378; 

 railroad, 375, 380 ; relations with Virginia, 

 377 ; religion, 375 ; social progress, 283 ; 

 tourists, 375-377, 379, 406, 407 



Barbuda, 23, 25, 319-323; administration, 321, 

 322 ; area, 19, 320; fauna, 150, 321 ; popula- 

 tion, 19 ; wrecking, 321 



Barcelona, 137 ; trade with Cuba, 92 



Barrier reefs, 37, 38 



Barros, 181 



Bartlett, J. R., computation of the velocity 

 of the Gulf Stream, 10 ; deep-sea explora- 

 tions by, 14 



Bartlett Deep, 4, 13, 185 



Basse End, St. Croix, 316 



Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 338, 339, 341, 358 



Basse-Terre, St. Kitts, 331 



Bassett, on Haitian cannibalism, 392 



Batabano, 45, 64, 87. 88, 90, 113, 117, 124, 144 



Bath, Jamaica, 195, 223, z25 



Bathsheba, 377 



Bayamo, 63, 127 



Bayamon, city, 151, 156, 182 



Bayamon, department, 150, 165 



Bayamon, Rio, 148 



Bay du Marin, 348 



Bay of Fort-de-France, 348 



Bazelais' revolution, Haiti, 281 



Becquia, 363 



Beef Island, 309 



Beeswax : in Cuba, 91, 127, 131 ; Porto Rico, 

 163 



Beet-sugar, 77, 78, 137, 209, 401 



Bejucal, 03, 88 



Belen, College de, 113 



Belgium, Haitian coffee in, 271 



Bellamar, caves of, 48, 49, 122 



Beriberi, 113 



Bermudas, 10, 10, 24, 373 ; cable communica- 

 tions, 90; communications with the Ba- 

 hamas, 301 ; emigration to Turks Island, 

 304 



Berry Island, 302 



Bethlehem Steel Company, 82 



Bilious fever: in Cuba, 57 ; Haiti, 279 



Biminis Islands, 302 



Bird Island, 22 



Birds : in the Caribbees, 328 ; Cuba, 56 ; Porto 

 Rico, 150 ; Santo Domingo, 250 



Bishop's Cap, 242 



Bitumen. See ASPHALT 



Black Eagle, the conspiracy of the, 66 



Black Mountains, 264 



Black River, 193, 196, 223 



"Blacks," in Cuba, 103 



" Blake," the deep-sea explorations of the, 

 14 



Blake, Sir Henry, governor of Jamaica, 217 ; 

 on the West Indian negro, 390 



Blake, Professor W. M., on the mineral re- 

 sources of San Domingo, 249, 258 



Blanca, 23 



Blanco, Rio, 151 



Blind fish, 56 



Blizzards, 12 



Bloodhounds, French use of, in Haiti, 293 

 Blue Mountain Peak, 187-189, 197 

 Blue Mountains, Jamaica, 30, 50, 129, 150, 151, 

 187-190, 196, 197, 200, 211, 212, 240 ; the coffee 

 of the, 80 

 Boa, the, 56 



Bobadilla, Francisco de, imprisons Colum- 

 bus, 252 

 Boca del Agua, 203. See also BOG WALK 

 Bodden Town, cave at, 234 

 Bog Walk, 203, 224 

 Bog Walk Caiion, 192 

 Bohios, 79 

 Bonao, 252 

 Bonaparte, Napoleon, infamous attack on 



Haiti, 293, 294 

 Bonnet-a-la-feveque, 242 

 Bordeaux, trade with Haiti, 273 

 Boston, superstition in, 396, 397; trade with: 



Barbados, 377 ; Jamaica, 210, 218, 223 

 Boston Fruit Company, the, 210, 218 

 Boston " Post," account of superstition in 



Boston, 396, 397 

 Bottom, Saba, 329 

 Bounties, 401 

 Bowden, 189 

 Bowerbank, Dr., 220 

 Boyer, J. P., President of Haiti, 295 

 Brazil, emancipation in, 289 

 Breadfruit: in St. Croix, 316; St. Kitts, 331 



