Cabot, 160 Cali, 22 California, 208, 280 _Campo_, the, 178, 185 Canoes, 36, 59, 93 Caracas, 27 Caribbean, 11-50 Cartagena, 11 Carthage, 12 Casiquiare, 26, 36, 51 Castro, President, 40, 52 Cattle, 24, 37, 107, 155, 195, 205, 220 Cauca Valley, 20, 22 Cayenne, 57, 60 Ceará, 105 Chaco, the, 162, 207, 213, 216 Chaves, airman, 268 Chibchas, 18 Chicago, 165 Chile, 133, 274 Chimborazo, 76 Chinese, 65, 68, 280 Chocolate, _see_ Cocoa Church, the, 108 Church architecture, 261 Churrigueresque style, 263 Cinnabar, 19 Cinnamon trees, 77 Ciudad Bolivar, 34 Cleveland, President, 52 Climate, 21, 99 Coal, 19, 156, 283 Cocoa, 19, 29, 98, 107 Coconuts, 19 Coffee, 19, 23, 29, 137, 139 Colombia, 11-25 Colonists, 140 Columbus, 34, 53 Commercial traveller, 237 Constitutions, 255 Coolies, _see_ East Indians Copper, 19 Cordillera, _see_ Andes Corrientes, 213 Cortes, 264 Cotopaxi, 76 Cotton, 19, 29, 219 Country life, 128 Courtesy in business, 238 _Couvade_, 43 Cow tree, 85 Creoles, 62 Dairying, 24 Darien, Gulf of, 11 Darwin, 233 Demerara, 58 Doctorate, abolition of, 133 Drake, 11 Dutch, 56 Dyewoods, 114 East Indians, 65 Ecuador, 26 Education, 256 El Dorado, 27, 54, 75 Elizabeth, Queen, 54 Emeralds, 18 Entre Rios, 210 Essequibo, 58 Estancias, 206 "Factory Age," 283 Falkland Isles, 235 Farming, 24 Fauna, 44 _Fazendas_, 128, 140 Fevers, _see_ Malaria Fishes, 49 Flora, 37, 84, 97, 187, 212 Forests, 37, 56, 77, 115-27, 234 Fray Bentos, 194 French, 56, 61, 238, 276, 286 Fritz, Padre, 108 Fruits, 24, 219 Future, the, 285 Gauchos, 154, 189 Germans, 19, 33, 132, 237 Gold, 19, 53, 64, 68, 107, 156, 269 Gomez, 200 Government, 255, 277 Guaranís, 160, 221 Guiana, 50-73 Hammocks, 41 Hemp, 219 Heredia, 12 Hides, 29 Holy Alliance, 277 Honda, 15 Horses, 37, 204 Houses, Spanish American, 25, 260 Humaita, 216 Humboldt, 39 Immigration, 131, 140-52, 206, 270 Incas, 74, 88 Indians, 25, 29, 36, 41, 70, 76, 89, 109, 190 Inquisition, 12 Investments, British, 251, 271 Iquitos, 107 Iron, 19, 156 Irrigation, 208 Italians, 33, 131, 149, 238, 270 Iturbide Hotel, 265 Ivory nuts, 19 Jaguar, 72, 87 Japanese, 238, 280 Jesuits, 221, 108 Juyjuy, 209 Labour, 30, 53, 60, 208, 274 La Guayra, 27 La Plata, 167 Las Casas, 108 Lasso, 155, 170 Law, William, 220 Lead, 19 Lemco, 191 Lepidoptera, 49, 71 _Llanos_, 25, 37 Loans, default of, 33 Locusts, 204, 207 Lopez, 218 Madeira-Mamoré, 91 Madre de Dios River, 95 Magdalena River, 14, 20 Maize, 206 Malaria, 12, 29, 60, 83, 100 Malaysia, 103 Mamelucos, 232 Manaos, 91, 104 Manati, 86 Mangroves, 56 Manioc, 42, 135 Maracaibo, 29