CUBA.
CHAPTER I.

Aboriginal inhabitants, 12-15.
As a field for American capi-
ital, 40, 41.

As a part of the Antillean
System, 34 et seq.
Attacked by the buccaneers, 33.

Circumnavigated, 25.
Compared with Porto Rico, 61,
62, 63.

Conquered by Velasquez, 25.

Amphibious characteristics of
aborigines, 171, 194.
Arts of the aborigines, 196,
198.

Canoes of the aborigines, 198
et seq.

Chamorros, vide reference to
aborigines.

Copra, the only export, 226.
Cyclones in, 166, 219, 231.

Difficulties of administration,
228, 229, 231.
Discovery of, 167, 168.
Dress of Guamese, 211.
Extermination of the natives, Dwellings of Guamese, 211.

29, 30.

Early accounts of, 170 et seq.

Flourishes under Velasquez, Earthquakes in, 166, 231.

30.

Aborigines of, 191 et seq.
Administrative system, 225 et

seq.
Agana, the capital of, 179, 217,
229.

Agriculture in, 211, 219.
American rule in, 217 et seq.

Economic conditions in, 185 et
seq., 219 et seq..

Education in, 176, 212, 234 et

Modern inhabitants of, 211 et Colonized by Spaniards, 16 et

Structures of the aborigines, United States and, 38, 39.

HAWAII (Continued).
American pioneers in, 259 et Leprosy, 300-302.

Labor, 302-304, 306 et seq.

seq.

Americans in, outlook for, 336-

338.

Annexation of, 289.

Area of component islands,
244.

Blount incident, 284 et seq.

Canning industry, 334.
Chinese, 302 et seq., 321, 323.
Coffee, 328-332.

Liliuokalani, 279 et seq.

Missionaries in, 261, 262.
Mixture of races, 297-299, 304,
305.

Orientals, 302 et seq.

Paulet incident, 268, 269.
Pearl Harbor, 251, 277.
Physical features of the is-
lands, 243-254.

JAMAICA.

CHAPTER I.

Chagres River, 397, 508, 542.
Chirigui, 431-435.

Churches of Panama, 456-460.
Climate of Isthmus, 438, 439.

Annexation sentiment in, 41 Colon, 443 et seq.

et seq.

Comité Technique, 505 et seq.

As a part of the Antillean Sys- Culebra Cut, 510-513.
tem, 34 et seq.

Darien expedition, 352, 353.

Columbus wrecked upon the Darien route, 377, 378.
coast of, 31.
Davis report, 378-380.
Commercial decline of, 41 et De Lesseps, 472 et seq.

seq.

Compared with Cuba, 61, 62, Eads Railway, 384.

American enterprise, 531 et Lock-level plans, 506 et seq.,

541, 548-551.

Manzanillo Island, 444.

Alhajuela Dam, 514, 542.

seq.

Balboa, 341-347.

Bohio Dam, 513, 514.

Mineral resources, 435, 436.
Morgan's expedition, 449 et

INDEX.

PANAMA (Continued).
Nicaragua route, 356-358, 363
et seq., 381, 384, 385, 515
et seq.

compared with Panama, 523-
528.

Overland communication, 349
et seq., 354 et seq., 367,
368, 371.

Palmer enterprise, 364, 365.
Panama, City of, 443 et seq.
Panama Railroad, 377, 389 et
seq.

Panama Viejo, 350, 448 et seq.
Panamans, characteristics of,

437.

Pearl Islands, 436, 437.
Porto Bello, 443, 451.

Agriculture in, 129 et seq.
Aguadilla, 116.
Arecibo, 116, 117.
Area, physical features, etc.,
of, 47 et seq.

Arieto, the ceremonial dance
of the aborigines, 88 et
seq.

As a part of the Antillean Sys-
tem, 34 et seq.

As a province of Spain, 67.
Attacked by foreign powers,
56, 57.

Caparra, the first settlement
in, 55, 106.

Casa Blanca, 112 et seq.
Cemi, the aboriginal deity, 79

et seq.

Church establishment in, 59,
60, 66.

Revolution in Panama, 419 et Climate of. 49 et seq.

seq.

Sea-level plans, 486-488, 547-

551.
Search for a strait, 342, 347-
349.
Secretary of War. responsi-
bilities of, 536-538.
Suez Canal compared, 485.

Tehuantepec route, 355, 381.

Vanderbilt Company, 373 et
seq.

Wyse Commission, 470.

PORTO RICO.

CHAPTERS II, III, IV, V, ETC.

Cocoanut products, 157, 158.
Coffee, 130, 140 et seq.
Commerce, Tribunal of, in, 67.
Cotton, 155, 156.
Creole element in, 98, 112.
Culebra, 118.
Cyclones in, 49, 50.

Discovery and occupation of,
25 et seq., 53.

Diseases prevalent in, 51.
Dwellings of aborigines, 82,
83.

Exports of, 131 et seq.

Farm lands of, 129, 130.

Forests of, 49.

Aborigines of, 77 et seq.

Administration of finances in, Fortifications of San Juan,

59 et seq.

111.