Chapter M: Macuto, the Newport of Venezuela, 291

Magdalena River, the, 232, 234, 237.

Magellan, Strait of, glaciers in the, 517;
post-office of, 522;
wreck of steamship “Cordillera” in, 524.

Managua, city of, 166;
Lake, 168.

Mandioca root, the, 648.

Manta of Peru, romance of the, 372.

Marimba, the, 214.

Marriages, civil, in Mexico, 53.

Maximilian in Mexico, 10.

Meiggs, Henry, career of in Chili, 463, 467;
in Peru, 402.

Mexico, aristocracy of, 3, 5, 9, 17, 32;
Aztec civilization in, 5;
bull-fighting in, 43;
Catholic prejudices in 58;
Church restrictions in, 4, 17;
Congress of, 22;
curious customs in, 1, 18, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 49, 53;
decay of Catholicism in, 3;
Easter Sunday in, 50;
former rulers of, 6, 17;
funeral customs in, 34;
Gonzales, President of, 22, 26;
horseback riding in, 37;
ice in, 42;
intemperance in, 40;
marriage in, 34, 53;
missionary work in, 56, 58;
names of streets in, 36;
pawn-shops in, 54;
police system of, 42;
political struggles in, 3, 17, 21, 26;
post-offices of, 2;
priests of, 4;
Protestant work in, 57;
pulque-drinking in, 40;
religious festivities in, 49;
religious struggles in, 3, 17, 21, 26;
religious superstitions in, 18;
revolution of students in, 26;
Senate of, 21;
shopping in, 39;
smoking in, 37;
social customs in, 37;
steamship subsidies in, 3;
street-cars in, 37;
wedding in, 54.

Middleton, British Minister to Venezuela, 265.

Miraculous candlestick, the, 418.

Misery of Peru, Blaine responsible for, 388.

Misti Volcano, Bolivia, 420.

Molino del Rey, battle-field of, 43.

Mollendo, town of, 419.

Monte de Piedad of Mexico, the, 54.

Montevideo, bay of, 605;
city of, 548, 602, 609.

Montezuma, descendants of, 6.

Morazan, Dictator of Guatemala, 80, 135, 136.

Moreno, President of Ecuador, 318, 319.

Mummies, eyes of, 415.

N.

National Palace of Nicaragua, 167.

Navigation Company, The Pacific, 298.

Negroes in Brazil, 705.

Newspapers of Buenos Ayres, 555;
of Lima, 386;
of Montevideo, 616;
South American, _ibid._

Nicaragua, agriculture in, 151;
baptism of volcanoes in, 161;
capitals of, 138, 152, 166;
cities of, 138;
commercial condition of, 151;
Congress of, 169;
earthquakes in, 164;
Government of, 169;
holidays in, 160;
immigration resisted in, 149;
National Palace of, 167;
origin of name of, 154;
peculiar customs in, 141, 161;
people of, 137;
principal seaport of, 140;
railroads in, 141;
rubber, how it is gathered in, 146;
social restrictions in, 159;
subjugation of, 154;
suffrage restricted in, 169;
timber resources of, 145;
transportation facilities in, 141;
Walker, the filibuster, in, 152, 165.

Nitrate deposits of Peru, 430.

Nobility of Brazil, 676.

Nomenclature, peculiar, in Chili, 483.

Nuñez, President of Colombia, 256.

O.

Officials, Peruvian, 346.

O’Higgins, Bernard, Liberator of Chili, 475.

Old Guatemala, its wealth and influence, 63.

Opera-house of Caracas, 271;
of Santiago, 470.

Orchids in Colombia, 252.

Oroya Railroad, Peru, 403.

Ostrich-hunting in Patagonia, 538, 540.

Ox-carts in Costa Rica, employment of, 212.

P.

Palaces, Mexican, 30, 32.

Paraguay, capital of, 636;
cattle-raising in, 658;
commerce of, 633;
customs peculiar to, 636, 638, 642, 645, 649, 651, 652;
Francia, “Perpetual President” of, 623;
fruits of, 648;
funeral customs in, 645;
Government’s effort to educate the people of, 634;
immigration to, 628;
land laws of, 629;
Lopez I., II., Presidents of, 623, 624;
marriage customs in, 645;
native customs in, 642;
population of, 630;
Protestantism in, 635;
railroads in, 633;
reorganization of the Government of, 627;
steamships to, 566, 634;
tapioca, how made in, 650;
tea-drinking in, 651;
timber of, 656;
tobacco cultivated in, 655;
war of with Brazil and the Argentine Republic, 625;
women of, 643.

Paraguay River, the, 632.

Parana River, the, 631.

Patagonia, capital of, 536;
Fenton, Doctor, in, 537;
fur-bearing animals in, 539;
Indians of, 530;
ostrich-hunting in, 538, 540;
partition of, 528;
ranchmen in, 534;
Roca’s (General) Indian campaign in, 533;
Sterling, Bishop, in, 521;
Taylor’s (Wm.) adventure with cannibals in, 525.

Peonage, Nicaraguan, 150.

Peru, Andes railway in, 407;
army of Chili in, 392;
capture of by Caceres, 395;
cause of the late war in, 434;
coca plant in, 448;
Congress of, 388;
“deck trading” in, 347;
desert of, 417;
iodine, how made in, 434;
mines of, 362;
nitrate of soda deposits in, 430;
petroleum in, 344;
Pizarro’s plunder in, 431;
railroads in, 346, 401;
rain never falls in, 387;
saltpetre, how made in, 433;
shoes of natives of, 484;
soldiers of, 352;
war with Chili, its, 388;
water in, 436.

Peruvian bark, supply of, 446;
deserts, water in, 436.

Petropolis, palace of, Brazil, 684.

Pichincha Volcano, Ecuador, 323.

Pierola, Don Nicolas, 396.

Pizarro, 304, 325, 326, 344, 362.

Plate River, the, 543, 581, 630.

Poncho, the, 505, 577.

Popocatepetl Mountain, Mexico, 42.

Potosi, silver-mines of, 445.

Prado, President of Peru, 398.

Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, 295.

Pulpit, a miraculous, 228.

Puna, island of, 344.

Puno, town of, 438.

Punta Arenas, railroad to, 211;
Taylor’s journey to, 527.

Q.

Quinine, discovery of in Peru, 446.

Quito, age of, 325;
architecture of, 332;
business perfidy in, 335;
climate of, 333;
earthquakes in, 324;
journey to, 309, 318;
manufacturing in, 337;
monks of, 332;
no newspapers in, 340;
schools in, 340;
volcanoes near, 323.

R.

Rabonas of Peru, 348.

Railway, Interoceanic, in Honduras, 118.

Rain never falls in Peru, 387.

Religion and politics in Mexico, 3, 17.

Rio de Janeiro, bay of, 660;
filth of, 662;
horse-cars of, 668;
hotels of, 673;
social customs in, 670;
streets of, 664;
theatres of, 672;
women of, 670.

Rio de la Plata, the, 630.

Robinson Crusoe’s Island, 451.

Roca, General, Indian campaign of in Patagonia, 533;
President of Argentine Republic, 568.

Rosas, the tyrant, 549, 572.

Rubber-gathering in Nicaragua, 146.

Rubio, Romero, 32.

Ruins in Guatemala, 67;
of old Spanish forts in Venezuela, 259.

S.

Sabanilla, port of, 232.

Sailors, superstitious, 544.

Saint, a preserved, 229;
Martin, tomb of, 566;
the only American, 358.

San José, city of, 203;
merchants of, 204;
transportation of freight to, 199;
volcanoes around, 200.

San Salvador, area of, 175;
attempt to join the United States, its, 176;
balsam coast of, 192;
capital of, 178;
Christmas in, 184;
conscription in, 110;
destruction of, 192;
earthquakes in, 187, 192;
Government of, 178;
homes of the people of, 180;
landing in, 171;
patriotism of the people of, 183;
peculiar customs of, 181-183, 193;
political history of, 176;
political organization of, 178;
Romanism in, 177, 183;
social condition in, 181;
suffrage in, 178;
volcanoes of, 179;
women of, 181, 187.

Santa Anna, widow of, 13.

Santiago, Alameda of, 466;
Catholicism in, 493;
church catastrophe in, 496;
Church struggles in, 493;
climate of, 464;
coal-mines at, 488;
Cousino, Donna Isadora, Crœsus of, 487;
cuaca dance in, 469;
earthquakes in, 483, 499;
Exposition buildings in, 470;
farming in, 489, 502;
home for foundlings in, 463;
horseback riding in, 503;
hotels of, 472;
journey from Buenos Ayres to, 506, 510;
Liberal party in, 493;
marriage in, 494;
men of Irish descent in, 475;
nomenclature peculiar to, 483;
opera-house in, 470;
peonage in, 503;
plunder from Peru in, 471;
political struggle in, 493;
Presidential election in, 495;
Protestantism in, 496;
railroad facilities of, 464, 481;
railroad from to Buenos Ayres, 510;
Santa Lucia Park in, 467;
“Señor May” in, 499;
shops of, 465;
superstition in, 499;
women of, 458, 461, 472, 484, 498.

Santos, President of Uruguay, 593, 613.

Sarmiento, ex-President of Argentine Republic, 557.

Selkirk, Alexander, on Island of Juan Fernandez, 452.

Sinibaldi, Vice-President of Guatemala, 113.

Sirroche disease, the, 423

Smyth’s Channel, beauty of, 516.

Soldiers, Peruvian, 348.

Soto, De, President of Costa Rica, 222.

Soto, Marco A., President of Honduras, 117.

South America, desert on west coast of, 342;
freight charges on west coast of, 298;
Yankees of, 542.

Sterling, Bishop, missionary work of, 521.

T.

Tapioca, how made in Paraguay, 650.

Taylor, William, his adventure with cannibals in Patagonia, 525.

Tegucigalpa, city of, 128.

Terra del Fuego, cannibalism in, 524;
Indians of, 518;
missionary work in, 521.

Theatre Yturbide, Mexico, 22.

Timber regions of Paraguay, streams in, 656.

Titicaca, Lake, 428.

Tobacco, cultivation of in Paraguay, 655.

Tropical vegetation, beauty of near Guayaquil, 302.

Tropics, fleas in the, 260.

Tumbez, petroleum deposits near, 344.

Tunguragua Volcano, Ecuador, 324.

U.

Union of Central America, plan, etc., 104, 106-108.

United States, trade with Argentine Republic, 553.

University of Argentine Republic, 556;
of Costa Rica, 218;
of Venezuela, 272.

Uruguay, architecture of, 607;
army of, 610;
beggars of, 610;
birth statistics of, 598;
Catholic Church in, 612, 615;
cattle in, 600, 602;
censorship of the press in, 620;
commerce of, 600;
customs peculiar to, 603, 607, 609-611, 615, 618, 620;
decay of Romanism in, 612, 615;
growth of, 596;
ignorance concerning, 591;
living cheap in, 598;
Methodist Church in, 615;
mining in, 592;
newspapers in, 616;
population of, 599;
Protestantism in, 612;
railroad system of, 599;
resources of, 596, 598;
revolution in, 592;
Santos, President of, 593, 613;
Vidal, President of, 596;
wealth of, 599, 600;
women of, 607;
Wood, Rev. Thomas, in, 614;
wool product of, 601.