Women, status of, 37, 115, 135, 143, 154, 163, 168, 202, 205, 252, 274 Yareta, 260 Yellow fever, 157 Yucatan, 138 Zacatecas, 104, 132 THE ANGLO-SOUTH AMERICAN BANK, LIMITED AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION The Bank has Branches in-- GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE SPAIN UNITED STATES ARGENTINA CHILE URUGUAY PERU & MEXICO and it is represented in BRAZIL and throughout CENTRAL AMERICA by its affiliated Institutions, THE BRITISH BANK OF SOUTH AMERICA, Ltd. and THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SPANISH AMERICA, Ltd. [Illustration: Bank Advertisement first half] [Illustration: Bank Advertisement second half] THE ANGLO-SOUTH AMERICAN BANK LIMITED _Head Office: 62 OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON, E.C.2_ The Capital and Reserves exceed £12,500,000 ¶ CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened at Head Office on the usual terms of London Bankers; at Branches on customary local conditions. ¶ DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS may be arranged for long or short periods, and interest allowed thereon at rates ascertainable on application. ¶ FOREIGN EXCHANGE business is made a speciality, and particular attention is given to the negotiation of FORWARD EXCHANGE contracts, under which insurance may be effected against commercial loss resulting from exchange fluctuations. ¶ DRAFTS and LETTERS OF CREDIT are issued on all of the principal commercial centres of the world. ¶ The COLLECTION of cheques and bills is undertaken in all parts of the world. ¶ The PURCHASE and SALE of Securities and the collection of coupons, drawn bonds, dividends, etc., are undertaken on the usual terms. _Printed in Great Britain by_ UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED WOKING AND LONDON * * * * * Transcriber's note: Minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations. Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed. The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. Page 116: the transcriber has changed Chalpulepec to Chalpultepec. Page 229: for ease of reading, the transcriber inserted a new paragraph break where there was none, to begin a block quote. 'was rapidly declining in health. "But his mind did not share the ills' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 1, by Charles Reginald Enock