t printing-press.

Prim, John, Count of Reus, his severe
proclamation against the negroes.

Primitive inhabitants.

Products.

Puerto Rico, discovery of;
first settlement, at Caparra; made a
bishopric; name of Puerto Rico first used
October, 1514; divided into two departments;
capital transferred from Caparra to present
location, San Juan; disease and pestilence;
destructive storms; news of gold discoveries
in Peru causes many settlers to leave;
inhabitants try to leave the island for the
Peru gold fields; devastated by French and
Indians; the inhabitants turn to agriculture,
100; expedition sent against the French in
Santa Cruz; English fleet, under the Earl of
Estren, appears off San Juan; used as a
"presidio," or place of banishment for
political prisoners for three centuries;
condition of, in 1765, described by Alexander
O'Reilly; revolution headed by Rafael Diego
and General O'Daly, 153; divided into seven
judicial districts; political rights in the
island; efforts of Spain to promote
development of the island; state of society,
159; effects of Carlist troubles in Spain;
resources of, diminished; description of the
island in 1880; reform laws to relieve
financial distress; promise of reforms; the
new electoral law; conditions in the island
immediately before the American occupation;
becomes part of the United States; its
advantageous situation; soil and products;
harbors; climate; primitive inhabitants;
present inhabitants; era of greatest
prosperity under Spanish rule.

Races in Puerto Rico.

Ramirez, Francisco, President of the
"Republic of Boriquen,".

Reforms, promise of, by Spanish
Government; granted too late.

Religion of the peasantry.

Republic of Boriquen proclaimed.

Revolution, against Spanish oppression.

Rodney, English admiral, attacks French
West Indies.

Sables d'Olone, French pirate.

Sagasta, suggests reforms in Puerto Rico
and Cuba.

Sail.

Salazar, Diego do, heroic conduct of;
defeats Indians.

San German founded.

San Juan, only settlement in Puerto
Rico not destroyed by the French;
the fort, "Fortal