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Santiago dc Cuba continued 



foundation, m: population, 98,99, 131 ; 

 trade with Haiti, 27< i \ Isitlng, MM 



Santiago de Cuba, province of, 89, 42-47, 62, 



68, mi. B9, 97, KM 

 Santiago dc las Vegas, Cuba, 03 

 Santiago de la Vega, Jamaica, 222 

 Santiago de los Caballeros, 361, 2t!2 

 Santo Domingo, 9, 16, 31, 22, 24, 26, 29, 123, 



145. 183, 185, 190, 903. 90S, 286-260, 297, 298; 



aborlginee, 369; administration, 24, 25; 

 agriculture, 363, 368,266,367; area, iw,238; 

 bones of Columbus, 118; climate, 249, 260; 



mast Hue ami harbors, 238, 239, 241,246, 

 248, 259-262; communications with New 

 York, 405,406; currency, 256; discovery, 

 237, 245, 2.V2; earthquakes, 261, 275, 276; 

 emancipation, 237 ; emigration to Porto 

 Rico, 155 ; fauna, 242, 249, 250 ; flora, 243, 

 246, 247 ; fruits, 257, 263, 272 ; geology, 249, 

 384 ; lakes, 241, 245, 246, 248, 249 ; lost to 

 Spain, 65 ; minerals, 245, 249, 257, 258, 271, 

 272 ; mountains, 29, 30, 239-250 ; people, 251 

 et seq., 389; population, 18; post-oflice, 

 259 ; quarantine against, 405; railways, 255, 

 259 ; repulse of the English from, 203 ; riv- 

 ers, 240, 242, 243, 245, 246, 248, 264, 276; 

 roads, 259 ; slavery, 237 ; Spanish occupa- 

 tion, 248, 249, 290; stormy history, 237, 

 248, 252-255, 258; superstition, 245; tele- 

 graphs, 259 ; trade with Porto Pico, 159. 

 See also Haiti ; Han Domingo 



Santo Domingo, Cuba, 88 



Santo Domingo Improvement Company, 

 255, 256 



Santo Espiritu, Cuba, 63, 64, 98, 107 



Santo Espiritu, Island 42, 



San Turce, 174 



Saona, 239 



Sap-saps, 331 



Satinwood, in Santo Domingo, 257 



Savana de la Puerta, 244 



Savana-la-Mar, 191, 193, 195, 223 



Scaife, W. B., on the future of Cuba, 138, 139 



Scarborough, Tobago, 371 



Schomburgk, Sir Robert H., on the min- 

 erals of Santo Domingo, 245 



Scorpion, the, 56 



Scotch dialect, among Bahama negroes, 301 



Scotch Kirk, in Jamaica, 207 



Scotch negroes, 390 



Scotland, emigration to Jamaica, 203, 204 



Scotland, Barbados, 374 



Scotland district, Barbados, 374, 375, 377 



Scrub Island, 309 



Scrutton's Steamship Company, 301 



Sea-birds, on Morant Keys, 235 



Sea-gardens, 298 



Seals, in Jamaica, 199 



Seborucco, the, 31, 36, 151, 194 



Selenodon, the, in Santo Domingo, 250 



Selma "Times," on superstition in Ala- 

 bama, 398 



Serers, 285 



Serpent-worship, 393, 394, 396 



Serra de Casa, Rio de, 144 



Serrano, General, 124 



Seville oranges, in Jamaica, 210 



Seybo, 262 



Seylo, Plain of, 247 



Shaddocks : in Haiti, 272 ; Jamaica, 210 



Sharks, in Santo Domingo, 249 



Sheep : in Anegada, 315 ; Cuba, 81 ; Tobago, 

 371 



Shell-fish, in the Bahamas, 299 



Shells, 15, 22 



Shettlewood, 225 



Ship-building, in Cuba, 64 



Sicily, the lemons of, 136 



Sierra Cibao, 29, 241, 242, 246, 247 



Sierra Cubitas, 42 



Sierra de Cayey, 147 



Sierra del Cobre, 40 



Sierra de la Monte Criati, 246 



Sierra del Marta, 3 



Sierra de los Organos, 40, 41, 79 



Sierra Luquillo, 147, 151 



Sierra Maestra, 4, 39, 30, 37, 39-44, 50, 82, 83, 

 127, 139, 181, 185, 190, 234, 240 



Sierra Matahambre, 44 



Sierra Zatibonico, 42 



Sigsbee, Captain C. D., deep-sea explora- 

 tions by, 14 



Sigsbee Deep, the, 13 



Sigua mines, 131 



Sillon de la Viuda, 244 



Silver : in Cuba, 82, 380 ; Santo Domingo, 

 249, 253, 258, 272, 380 



Silver Bank, 298 



Silver Hill, 189 



Sir John's Peak, 189 



Sisal hemp, in Bahamas, 300 



Sisters of Charity, in Haiti, 269 



Slavery: in Bahamas, 300; Cuba, 64, 204, 

 284; Guadeloupe, 340; Haiti, 284, 285, 

 287, 289-293 ; Jamaica, 204, 205, 209, 230 ; 

 Lesser Antilles, 305-307 ; Porto Rico, 155, 

 169, 170, 204; St. Thomas, 314, 316; Santo 

 Domingo, 237, 253; Tortola, 315 ; Trinidad, 

 368 ; United States, 284 ; West Iudies, 400 ; 

 abolished : by Great Britain, 204 ; in Bra- 

 zil, 289 ; Haiti, 288, 289, 291, 294 ; United 

 States, 288, 291 



Slave-trade, 67, 204, 284 



Smallpox: in Cuba, 113, 140; Haiti, 279; 

 Santiago city, 131 



Snake dance, in Haiti, 392, 393 



Snakes, 55, 56; iu Santo Domingo, 250. See 

 also Reptiles 



Snake-worship, 393, 394, 396 



Socapa, La, 128 



" Soldiers of Fortune," 82 



Soledad estate, 124 



Solenodon, the, 55 



Sombrero, 19, 23, 150, 318, 319, 323 



Sorcery : in France, 399 ; United States, 398 



Soulouque, Emperor of Haiti, 273 



South America, 23, 35, 155, 186, 305, 365, 381, 

 383 ; cable communications with Cuba, 

 91 ; the continent, 1, 2, 4-6 ; earthquakes, 

 361; islands formed from the continent, 23; 

 Spain loses her colonies in, 65, 66; Span- 

 iards in, 289 ; trade with Porto Rico, 159 



South American Antilles, 308, 365-372 



Southward air-currents, 12 



Spain , architecture, 110, 111 ; colonial ad- 

 ministration, 32, 291 ; colonies, 69 ; coloni- 

 zation of Cuba, 64 ; constitution of 1836, 

 66 ; Cuba's loyalty to, 65, 66, 92 ; Cuba's 

 relation to, 69, 70; currency, 163; diplo- 

 matic relations with Haiti, 270; end of 

 her regime in Cuba, 134 et seq.; loses and 

 regains Cuba, 64 ; loss of American colo- 

 nies, 65, 66; losses of men in Cuba, 67; 

 loyalty of Porto Rico to, 155 ; oppression 

 and spoliation of Cuba, 65-75, 92, 138; 

 overthrow of the Bourbons, 65 ; posses- 

 sion : of Guadeloupe, 340 ; Jamaica, 203, 

 213; Porto Rico, 154; Santo Domingo, 

 237, 253, 254, 258, 260-262, 289 ; provinces 

 represented in Havana, 111 ; receipts of 

 gold from Santo Domingo, 258 ; sends ex- 

 pedition to Haiti, 292 ; size compared 

 with Cuba, 36 ; source of her weakness in 

 Cuba, 90; struggles for Trinidad, 368; 

 struggles for West Indies,400 ; trade with : 

 Cuba, 92, 93, 143 ; Porto Rico, 159, 162 ; 

 West Indian possessions, 24, 25, 218, 311 



