. A history of the United States. called boucattes. This gave them the name were also called freebooters or filibusters, fromtheir swift ships, 2)/ie&(?o^ew or flying boats. Some of themsettled on unoccupied islands, the French at Martinique,Guadaloupe, and western Haiti, ^ the Dutch at Curasao, andthe Enghsh at Barbados. About 1640 these settlers began to Columbus called this island Espanola, or Little Spain. One of the chieftowns was named Santo Domingo, and in time the English, French, and eventhe Spanish gave that name to the entire island. Early in the nineteenthcentury so

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. A history of the United States. called boucattes. This gave them the name were also called freebooters or filibusters, fromtheir swift ships, 2)/ie&(?o^ew or flying boats. Some of themsettled on unoccupied islands, the French at Martinique,Guadaloupe, and western Haiti, ^ the Dutch at Curasao, andthe Enghsh at Barbados. About 1640 these settlers began to Columbus called this island Espanola, or Little Spain. One of the chieftowns was named Santo Domingo, and in time the English, French, and eventhe Spanish gave that name to the entire island. Early in the nineteenthcentury some leading writers on geography suggested the use of the originalIndian name, Haiti, which meant mountainous country, and this is now theusual one for the island. DISSENTERS 89 raise cane sugar. The Dutch, however, were mainly inter-ested in smuggHng. Their settlement at Curasao was thegreat market at which to obtain the products of Europeand the East Indies. Even Spanish colonists traded there,because the merchants of Spain

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