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INDEX 



Dame Marie, Cape, 981 



Dancing, in Haiti, MS, 287 



Danish Antilles, 2. r >, 90, 306, 311-316; visitiDg, 

 |M 



Danish people, in the West Indies, 388 



Davy, Dr., on the (Jrcnudiues, 363 



Deans River, 195 



Decree of 1825, Cuba, 65, 71 



Deep-sea explorations, 13-16 



Deer, in Barbuda, 321, 322 



De Grasse, Admiral, defeated by Rodney, 

 3C0. 404 



De la Hotte Mountains, 244 



Delgris, S. T., suicide of negroes under, 340 



Demerara, trade with Barbados, 375; visit- 

 ing, 406 



Denmark, West Indian possessions, 25, 26, 

 306, 311-316; tries to sell St. Thomas, 313 



Department of the North, Haiti, 267 



Department of the South, Haiti, 267 



Descalabrado, Rio, 148 



Descourtils, M. S., researches into Haitian 

 flora, 264 



De"sirade, 19, 23, 25, 325, 341, 373 



Despoblado, 250, 251 



Despotism : in Cuba, 65-75, 99, 104, 106 ; 

 Haiti. 265, 266 



Dessalines, Jacques, Emperor of Haiti, 254, 

 265; issues declaration of Haitian inde- 

 pendence, 277 



Deux Mamelles, 338 



Dhool-dhools, 331 



Dialect : in Haiti, 286 ; Jamaica, 232, 233, 

 286 



Diamond Rock, Martinique, 354 



Diana Key, 84 



Diarrhea : in Cuba, 58 ; Jamaica, 200 



Dickens, Charles, on the "nigger," 227 



Diputacion Provincial, San Juan, 175 



Divi-divi, in St. Thomas, 314 



" Doctor," the, 11 



Dogs, in Barbuda, 321 



Dogs, the, 319 



Dominica, 23-25, 151, 236, 306, 326, 328, 329, 

 337,342-345, 352, 357-360, 401, 403, 404; ad- 

 ministration, 344; agriculture, 343, 344; 

 area, 19,342; climate, 342; commerce, 342- 

 344 ; discovery, 344 ; emigration, 344 ; pop- 

 ulation, 19, 343 ; religion, 343 



Dominicans, 236 



Dondon, 242, 282 



Dougald, Donald, of Barbuda, 322 



Drinking-water : in Cuba, 140, 141 ; in the 

 tropics, 60 



Drouillard, 280 



Drown Island, 315 



Dry Harbor, 196 



Dry River, 196 



Dumas, Alexandre, Sr., 281, 388 



" Duppy," the, 229, 232, 395 



Durocher, Colonel, engineering work of, 

 244 



Dutch, in the West Indies. 388 



Dutch West Indies, 306, 366, 371, 372 



Dyewoods : in Grand Cayman, 234 ; Ja- 

 maica, 213 



Dysentery: in Cuba, 57, 58, 140; Jamaica, 

 200; Porto Rico, 153 



Earthquakes, reputed destruction of Atlan- 

 tis, 381; at Cape Haitien, 275, 276; in 

 Caracas, 361 ; Cuba, 52; Guadeloupe, 341 ; 

 Haiti, 275, 276, 280 ; Jamaica, 221 ; Marti- 

 nique, 348, 353; Port-au-Prince, 280; St. 

 Vincent, 361; Santo Domingo, ?61, 280; 

 West Indies, 52, 305, 400 ; in 1693, 221 ; 1770, 

 280; 1812,361; 1839,353; 1842,275; 1843,341 

 Eastern Department of Cuba, 63 

 Ebony : in Jamaica, 213; Porto Rico, 149 



Education : in Cuba, 70, 73-75, 113 ; Jamaica, 

 906, 907, 214 ; Porto Kico, 157 



Edwards, Bryan, on the prosperity of Ja- 

 maica, 204 



Eggers, Baron H. F. A., oil tbe flora of 

 Porto Kico, 149 



Eggs, in Jamaica, 235 



ElCobre, 130 



Electric roads, 140 



Eleuthera, 298, 299, 302, 303 



Elfs, belief in, 3% ' 



El Junki, 133 



El Potrerillo, 42 



El Templada, mineral springs of, 49 



Emancipation: in Brazil, 289; Cuba, 103, 

 104; Guadeloupe, 340; Haiti, 288, 289, 291, 

 294 ; Jamaica, 204, 206 ; St. Kitts, 331 ; St. 

 Thomas, 314; Santo Domingo, 237; Tor- 

 tola, 315 ; United States, 103 ; West In- 

 dies, 103, 400 



Engano Point, 241 



England, American colonial revolution, 

 290, 291; bueaneers of, 64, 253, 289; cap- 

 tures Havana, 64; Cuhan iron- trade, 82; 

 education of Cubans in, 101; emigration 

 to Jamaica, 204 ; expedition to Haiti, 292 ; 

 naval preeminence, 360; occupies the 

 Bahamas, 300 ; struggles in the West In- 

 dies, 64, 203, 238, 253, 292, 300, 360, 368, 400. 

 404 ; struggle with France, 360 ; treaty of 

 Paris (1763), 64; urges the independence 

 of Haiti, 294. See also Great Britain 



English Antilles, 306 



"English in the West Indies, The," 

 (Fronde), cited, 403 



English race in the West Indies, 387-390 



Ennery, 278 



Enriquillo, Laguna, 248 



Ensenada Honda, 158 



Eocene epoch and formations, 40, 41, 83, 

 374 



Epping Forest Cave, 197 



Equatorial current, the, 10, 23 



Ermita del Santo Cristo Church, San Juan, 

 175 



Escalera de Jaruco, 42 



Escaliers, Les, 244 



Escribanos, 182 



Esperanza, 126 



Espinosa, on the Porto Rican people, 166 



Estevan, an early negro explorer, 104 



Estrella, La, 128 



Etang Duricie, 281 



Etang Sale', 249 



Europe, beet-sugar in, 137 ; cable communi- 

 cations with Cuba, 90 ; conquered by the 

 Atlanteans, 381 ; trade with : Porto Rico, 

 162 ; Trinidad, 367 



" Ever-faithful Island," the, C5 



Evil spirits, belief in, 394-399 



Ewarton, 192 



Executions, in Cuba, 100 



Exuma, 302 



Fairies, belief in, 396 



Fajardo, 158, 180, 181 



Fajardo, Rio, 148 



Fallow-deer, in Barbuda, 321, 322 



Falmouth, Jamaica, 223 



Familiarity, in the United States, 402 



Fer-de-lance : in the Caribbees, 328 ; Marti- 

 nique, 347, 351 ; St. Lucia, 369 



Fevers : in Cuba. 57-61, 140,143; Haiti, 279; 

 Jamaica, 200, 201 ; Porto Rico, 153 ; West 

 Indies, 388, 389 



Fig-tree Church, Nevis, 333 



Filibustering expeditions, 81 



Fish : in the Bahamas, 20, 299 ; Caribbees, 

 20 ; Cuba, 47, 56 ; Great Antilles, 20 ; Haiti, 



