420 



INDEX 



Jamaica continued 



latton, is. U6, 996; prison system, 200 ; 

 railways, 90B, 916, 217, 998, 998; religion, 

 jot ; rivers, 191 L97 ; roads, no, an, 224; sani- 

 tation, L06, 900-909, 906,906; savagery, 999 ; 

 seized ii\ the English, 908 ; shipping, 909 

 911, 'JIT. 918, 998. 988 ; Spanish oeeupati 



908; summit oi prosperity, 904; supersti- 

 tion, 999, 396, 896; telegraph linos. 217; 

 trade-w inds, 11 ; t ratio with Barbados, 375 ; 

 visiting, 406 



Jamaica, Cuba, 89 



Jamaica Agricultural Society, 214 



Jamaican Channel, the, 16 



Japan, trade with the United States, 93 



Jardin des Plantes, Martinique, 351-353 

 ardines, the, 37. 38 

 Jardinillos, the, 38, 44 



Jaruco, 63 

 atibonico, Rio, 47 

 Java, sugar ill. 77 

 ean Rabel, 282 

 Jeffrad, General, President of Haiti, 268, 



283, 295 

 Jeremie, 274, 275, 281 

 Jerusalem, Jamaica, 193 

 Jesus del Monte, 116 



Jews, in Jamaica, 203, 204, 207, 223, 226, 227 

 Jiguani, 63 

 Jimonea, 243 

 John Crow Hill, 189 

 Josephine, Empress, 352, 353, 388 

 "Journal of American Folk-lore," cited, 399 

 Juacaro, 123 



Julian II, founds bishopric of Porto Rico, 157 

 "Jumbies," 229, 395 

 Junki, the, 43 

 Jupiter Inlet, 10 

 Juragua, 82, 89, 131 

 Juragua Company, the, 82 

 Jurassic period and formations, 40, 41 



Kaja de Muestos, 151 



Kenskoff, 280 



Kentucky, the caves of, 49 



" Key of the New World," the, 33, 108 



Keys, 21, 35-38, 44, 132, 235. See also REEFS 



Key West, 35, 90 



King's House, Kingston, 221, 232 



Kingsley, Charles, on the Grenadines, 363 ; 

 on Jamaica, 225 ; on the town of St. 

 Thomas, 312 ; on the Virgin Islands, 310 



Kingston, Jamaica, 186, 188, 189, 194, 197, 200, 

 206, 207, 211, 215-217, 219-224, 226, 229; cli- 

 mate, 219 ; earthquake of 1693, 221 ; popu- 

 lation, 219 ; society, 226 ; trade- winds, 11 



Kingstown, St. Vincent, 26, 361, 362 



King's Valley, 193 



Kittefonians, 331 



Krakatau, explosion of, 361 



Labor : in Antigua, 324 ; Barbados, 376, 378, 

 379; Costa Rica, 228; Cuba, 105, 135, 138, 

 139, 141, 142, 389 ; Guatemala, 228 ; Hondu- 

 ras, 228; Jamaica, 142, 226-228, 370; Mar- 

 tinique, 356 ;" Nicaragua, 228 ; Panama, 

 228; Porto Rico, 159, 160, 168, 172, 175, 178, 

 182, 184, 389 ; St. Kitts, 331, 332 ; St. Vin- 

 cent, 362 ; Trinidad, 309, 370 ; West Indies, 

 400-402 



La Brea, 368, 369 



La Caimanera, 89 



La Capilla church, San Juan, 175 



La Carolina, 161 



La Carolina sugar-plantation, 131, 132 



La Catalina, 88 



La Charneau, 339 



La Convalecencia, 182 



La Croix des Bouquets, 280, 282 



La Cruz, 199 



L'Acul du Nord, 276 



Ladder, the, Saba, 329 



La Ferriere, fortress Of , 242, 276 



Laguna Enriquillo, JIM 



La Haute Mountains, 264 



La Isabella, 88 



La Miranao, 114 



Landholding, in the West Indies, 401, 402 



Land-turtles: in Barbuda, 150; Santo Do- 

 mlngo, '-'",0; Sombrero, 150: South Amer- 

 ica, 160 ; Trinidad (Island), 150 



La Pila, mineral springe of, 49 



La Plaine du Nord. 270 



La Punta, fort of, 108 



Lares, Porto Rico, 152, 179 



Las Cahobas, 282 



Las Casas, Bishop Bartolome, on the Bay 

 of Jagna, 123 



Las Casas, Captain-General, brilliant rule 

 ill Cuba, 114-66, 113 



Las Delicias, Playa, 178 



La Selle Mountains, 244 



La Soufriere, Guadeloupe, 338 



La Soufriere, St. Lucia, 357 



La Soufriere, St. Vincent, 361 



Las Playas, 88 



Las Roques, 23 



Las Tunas, 63, 89 



Latin races : in America, 166, 167 ; Cuba, 

 142 ; West Indies, 388 



La Tortue Island, 264 



La Union, 88 



La Vega, 259 



La Vega, city, 245 



" Leeward,"* the word, 11 



Leeward Islands, 25, 297, 306, 311, 322, 335, 

 375 



Le Francois, 353 



Lemons : in Cuba, 131, 132, 136 ; Haiti, 272 ; 

 Jamaica, 210; Porto Rico, 150, 179; St. 

 Croix, 316 



Le Montine, 353 



Le Moule, 341 



Leogane, 264, 282 



Lepidosteus, the, 56 



Leprosy, in Cuba, 113, 114 



Les Escaliers, 244 



" Les Pays des Revenants," 345 



Les Saintes, 339, 341 



Lesser Antilles, 16, 21, 160, 162, 209, 217, 218, 

 236, 273, 297, 305-308, 311, 312, 323, 332, 335, 

 359, 365, 371, 382, 401 ; English supremacy 

 over, 404 ; immigration, 389 ; slavery, 305- 

 307 ; trade with : Haiti, 273 ; Jamaica, 217, 

 218; Porto Rico, 162 



Lia Minga,332. See also St. Christopher 



Liberian coffee, in Jamaica, 212 



Lignite, in Santo Domingo, 249 



Lignum-vitae : in Cuba, 53 ; Haiti, 271 



Liguanea plain, 188, 194 



L'fle-a-Vache, 264 



Limbe, 282 



Limbe, Cape, 244 



Limes : in Cuba, 131, 132, 136 ; Dominica, 

 342, 344; Jamaica, 210; Montserrat, 335 



Limonar, Cuba, 49 



Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes the inde- 

 pendence of Haiti, 267 



Little Cayman, 235 



Little Monkey Island, 183 



" Little Paris," Haiti, 275 



Liver complaints : in Cuba, 57 ; Porto Rico, 

 153 



Liverpool, England, slave-trade of, 204 



Lizards, in Santo Domingo, 250 



"Llave del Nuevo Mundo," 108. See also 

 " Key of the New World " 



