PART I
Reading edition
HISTORICAL
CHAPTER
I.—THE DEPARTURE. 1493
II.—THE DISCOVERY. 1493
III.—PONCE AND CERON. 1500-1511
IV.—FIRST DISTRIBUTION OF INDIANS. "REPARTIMIENTOS" 1510
V.—THE REBELLION. 1511
VI.—THE REBELLION (continued.) 1511
VII.—NUMBER OF ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND SECOND DISTRIBUTION OF INDIANS. 1511-1515
VIII.—LAWS AND ORDINANCES. 1511-1515
IX.—THE RETURN OF CERON AND DIAZ. PONCE'S FIRST EXPEDITION TO FLORIDA. 1511-1515
X.—DISSENSIONS. TRANSFER OF THE CAPITAL. 1515-1520
XI.—CALAMITIES. PONCE'S SECOND EXPEDITION TO FLORIDA AND DEATH. 1520-1537
XII.—INCURSIONS OF FUGITIVE BORIQUÉN INDIANS AND CARIBS. 1520-1582
XIII.—DEPOPULATION OF THE ISLAND. PREVENTIVE MEASURES. INTRODUCTION OF NEGRO SLAVES. 1515-1534
XIV.—ATTACKS BY FRENCH PRIVATEERS. CAUSE OF THE WAR WITH FRANCE. CHARLES V. RUIN OF THE ISLAND. 1520-1556
XV.—SEDESO. CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT 1534-1555
XVI.—DEFENSELESS CONDITION OF THE ISLAND. CONSTRUCTION OF FORTIFICATIONS AND CIRCUMVALLATION OF SAN JUAN. 1555-1641 XVII.—DRAKE'S ATTACK ON SAN JUAN. 1595
XVIII.—OCCUPATION AND EVACUATION OF SAN JUAN BY LORD GEORGE CUMBERLAND. CONDITION OF THE ISLAND AT THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
XIX.—ATTACK ON SAN JUAN BY THE HOLLANDERS UNDER BOWDOIN. 1625
XX.—DECLINE OF SPAIN'S POWER. BUCCANEERS AND FILIBUSTERS. 1625-1780
XXI.—BRITISH ATTACKS ON PUERTO RICO. SIEGE OF SAN JUAN BY SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE. 1678-1797
XXII.—BRITISH ATTACKS ON PUERTO RICO (continued). INVASIONS BY COLOMBIAN INSURGENTS. 1797-1829
XXIII.—REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN PUERTO RICO AND THE POLITICAL EVENTS IN SPAIN FROM 1765 TO 1820
XXIV.—GENERAL CONDITION OF THE ISLAND FROM 1815 TO 1833
XXV.—POLITICAL EVENTS IN SPAIN AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AFFAIRS IN PUERTO RICO. 1833-1874
XXVI.—GENERAL CONDITIONS OF THE ISLAND, THE DAWN OF FREEDOM. 1874-1898