Chart of the Antilles, or Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles, by L. S. de la Rochette MDCCLXXXIV. (1784) From the situation of the Caribs Islands, compared with that of the Westernmost Isles of the Mexican Gulf, They are named Windward Islands by the Spaniards, as well as by the French, the Dutch, and the Danes while the English, who consider the position of those Islands respectively to Barbadoies give them the name Leeward Islands, or Leeward Charibee Islands | Collections | The Huntington