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INDEX 



Ccdrela odorata, in Cuba, 53 



Ceiba-tree : in Jamaica, 806 j St. Croix, 816 j 



Trinidad, 867 



Central America, 9, It, ;i r >, 186, 883; the con- 

 tinent of, 1,3, 4-c; the orooodile of, 66: 

 in prehistoric times, >; islands formed 



from continent of, 24; .Spain loses her 

 colonies in, 66, 66; volcanoes, 33 



Central American archipelago, 2 



Central Dominican Railway, 255 



Centrals, 77, 78 



"Century Magazine," cited, 58 



Cereus, 114 



Cerro, the, 116 



Cerro del Oro, 40 



Cerro de Sal, 259 



Cerro of Columbus, 262 



Cerro Santo, 245 



Ceuta, the Spanish prison at, 69 



Chaille, Dr. S. E.,ou the sanitary condition 



of Cuba, 57 

 Chalcedony, in Santo Domingo, 249 

 Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince, 280 

 Chapapote, 83. See also ASPHALT 

 Charlestown, Nevis, 333 

 Charlotte Amalia, 312 

 Charms, belief in, 394-399 

 Chester River, 1% 

 Chesterfield Sink, 193 

 Chiapas, 4 

 Chimborazo, 13 



China, trade with the United States, 93 

 Chinese : in Cuba, 99, 103; Jamaica, 226 

 Chocolate. See Cocoa 

 Cholera infantum, 58 

 Chorerra, 46, 116 



Christian Brothers, in Haiti, 269 

 Christian Church, in Jamaica, 207 

 Christiansted, St. Croix, 316 

 Christophe, King, 242 ; hie palace of Sans 



Souoi, 276 

 Christ's Church, Barbados, 377 

 Church of England, in Jamaica, 207 

 Ciales, 151 



Cibao Mountains, 241, 242, 246, 247 

 Cibuco, Rio, 148 

 Cidra, 181 

 Cienaga, Lake, 148 

 Cienagas, 44, 46, 143 

 Cienfuegos, 37, 42, 46, 63, 79, 84, 86-88, 98, 107, 



122-124, 126, 141 

 Cifuentas, 88 



Cigars, Havana, 87. See also TOBACCO ' 

 Cimarrones, in Jamaica, 230 

 Cinchona, in Jamaica, 189, 214 

 Cinco Reales, 129 

 Cinco Villas, 62, 63 

 Cinnamon, in Trinidad, 367 

 Civil War, Nassau, N. P., in the, 302 

 Clara, valley of, Cuba, 49 

 Clarendon Mountains, 191 

 Clarendon Parish, 190, 195, 196 

 Clarendon Valley, 190-193 

 Clay, in Cuba, 85 

 Cleve, P. T., on the geology of Porto Eico, 



150, 151 



Cleveland, Grover, his rahbit's-foot charm, 



398 

 Cloud-bursts, in the Caribbees, 328, 336 

 Clouet, General, 124 

 Club Nautica, Santiago, 130 

 Club San Carlos, Santiago, 130 

 Clyde Steamship Company, Haitian service, 



273 

 Coal : in Porto Rico, 162 ; Santo Domingo, 



249 ; non-existent in Cuba, 84 

 Coamo, 151 

 Coamo, Rio, 148 

 Coast Survey, work of the, 14 



Coati, the, in Banto Domingo, 250 

 Cobre, 84, 89 

 Cobre, Rio, 192, 197 

 Cochinos Inlet, 48 

 Cock-fighting, in Porto Rico, 168 

 Cocoa and chocolate: in the Antilles, 32; 

 Cuba, 188; Dominica, 342,344; Grenada, 

 364; Guadeloupe, 840: Jamaica, 308,318; 

 Martinique, 848-860; Porto Rico, 160, 163, 

 178, 179; Santo Domingo, 255-257, 269, 271, 

 281, 289 ; Trinidad, 368 

 Cocoanuts: in the Bahamas, 300; Cuba, 133 ; 

 Grand Cayman, 235 ; Haiti, 272; Jamaica, 

 188, 208, 224, 228, 235 ; Porto Rico, 179 ; St. 

 Croix, 316; St. Thomas, 312; Trinidad, 

 368 

 Cocoloba macrophylla, in Porto Rico, 149 

 Cocos reefs, 38 

 Coco-wood, 53 

 Coddrington family, owners of Barbuda, 



321, 322 

 Code Napoleon, in Haiti, 266 

 Coffee : in the Antilles, 31, 32 ; Cuba, 76, 80, 

 131, 132, 136, 137; Dominica, 344; Guade- 

 loupe, 340 ; Jamaica, 80, 189, 208, 211, 212, 

 215, 231 ; Martinique, 348, 349 ; Porto Rico, 

 159-161, 163, 178-182 ; Santo Domingo, 255- 

 257, 269-272, 281, 289 ; United States, 403 ; 

 West Indies, 403 

 College de Belen, the, 113 

 College de St. Ildefonsa, San Juan, 176 

 College of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, San 



Juan, 175 

 Colombia, 2-4, 8; protectorate of Haiti, 

 254; topography, 240; trade with Ja- 

 maica, 217 

 Colon, 7, 63, 88, 98, 211, 375 

 "Colored," the word, 103 

 Colored people. See NEGROES 

 Columbus, Bartholomew, imprisonment 



of, 252 

 Columbus, Christopher, 128, 132; burial- 

 place of his family, 261 ; castle of, at San 

 Domingo city, 261 ; discovers : Dominica, 

 344; Montserrat, 334; Nevis, 333; St. 

 Christopher, 332 ; Trinidad, 367 ; the Vir- 

 gin Islands, 309; tirst landfall, 300; 

 founds : Concepcion de la Vea, 262 ; Port 

 de Paix, 276 ; Puerta Plata, 262 ; his name 

 for Cuba, 33 ; imprisonment, 252 ; in : 

 Haiti, 276; Porto Rico, 154, 179; Santo 

 Domingo, 237, 245, 252; the "Jardines" 

 of, 37, 38 ; last voyage, 123 ; second voy- 

 age, 252 ; statues of, 122 ; supposed burial- 

 place, 112, 113, 261 ; third voyage, 252 

 Columbus, Diego, 132 ; castle built by, 261 ; 

 colonizes Cuba, 63 ; settles Santiago de la 

 Vega, 222 

 Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, Hai- 

 tian service, 273 

 Concepcion, Matanzas, 122 

 Concepcion de la Vega, 252, 262 

 Concepcion sugar-estate, 77 

 Conch, the pearl, 303 

 " Conchs," in the Bahamas, 301 

 Congregationalists, in Jamaica, 207 

 Conjuring, in the United States, 394-399 

 Consejo, cave of, 180 

 Constancia asphaltum-mine, 84 

 Constancia sugar-estate, 89 

 Constant Spring Hotel, Kingston, 221 

 Constanzia, Vale of, 247, 248 

 Consumption : in Cuba, 143 ; Haiti, 279 ; 



Porto Rico, 153 

 Content River, 195 



Coolies : in Cuba, 103 ; Jamaica, 226 ; Trini- 

 dad, 369, 370 

 Coopers Island, 310 

 Copellanias, Rio, 47 



