• 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 BORIQUEN 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
  
  
• XXVII.--SITUATION AND GENERAL APPEARANCE OF PUERTO RICO
  
  
• XXVIII.--ORIGIN, CHARACTER, AND CUSTOMS OF THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS OF BORIQUEN
  
  
• XXIX.--THE "JIBARO" OR PUERTO RICAN PEASANT
  
  
• XXX.--ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF THE MODERN INHABITANTS OF PUERTO RICO
  
  
• XXXI.--NEGRO SLAVERY IN PUERTO RICO
  
  
• XXXII.--INCREASE OF POPULATION
  
  
• XXXIII.--AGRICULTURE IN PUERTO RICO
  
  
• XXXV.--EDUCATION IN PUERTO RICO
  
  
• XXXVI.--LIBRARIES AND THE PRESS
  
  
• XXXVII.--THE REGULAR AND SECULAR CLERGY
  
  
• XXXVIII.--THE INQUISITION. 1520-1813
  
  
• XXXIX.--GROWTH OF CITIES
  
  
• XL.--AURIFEROUS STREAMS AND GOLD PRODUCED FROM 1509 TO 1536
  
  
• XLI.--WEST INDIAN HURRICANES IN PUERTO RICO FROM 1515 TO 1899
  
  
• BIBLIOGRAPHY

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