BRASSEY, Thomas, and first Argentine railway, 139 BRAZIL, agricultural riches of, 4; gambling in, 12; and Argentine cattle, 128; reported coal mines in, 155; dislike of United States in, 273, 275 BREWING, possible development of, 261 "BRIDGE of the Incas," 219 BRITISH capital in Argentina, 7, 21, 24, 43, 46, 123; in railways, 134 BRITISH Chamber of Commerce at Buenos Aires, 278 BRITISH immigrants, possibilities of sheep rearing for, 183 BRITISH trade and Argentina, 260-1 BRITISH trade methods, futility of, 85 BUENOS Aires, arrival at, 20; business of, 22-3; the streets of, 25; hotels of, 26; expensiveness of, 26; railways in, 27; Jockey Club of, 28; Colon Theatre at, 28; immorality of, 29; irreligion of, 29; showiness of, 30, 32; "Las Damas da Beneficencia," 34; foundling hospital at, 35; the Recoleta, 36; as capital, 37; population and characteristics of, 41; fascination of, 42; immigrants' accommodation at, 53; land values in, 65; slaughter-houses at, 70; senators from, 73; national and normal schools in, 78; university at, 78; shallowness of river at, 90; regulations against dogs in, 98; variations of climate in, 102-3; offices of Argentine Agricultural Society at, 120; Jockey Club at, 123; frozen meat works at, 124; population and meat demands of, 129; sheep market at, 130; railways from, 141; the Retiro station at, 142-3; suburban traffic of, 143, 151; B.A. and P. high level line at, 145; railway connection with Valparaiso from, 146-7; Mar del Plata and, 151; cost of living in, 241-2; increase of shipping trade of, 244; labour unrest in, 258; British Chamber of Commerce at, 278 BUENOS Aires and Pacific Railway, returns of, 140; growth and revenue of, 145; Light and Power Co. in connection with, 145; port accommodation at Bahia Blanca, 145; high level line to Buenos Aires, 145; reclamation of land from River Plate by, 146; transcontinental traffic, 146-7; Transandine line, 148; snow protection on, 148; prospects of, 149; Mr. Guy Calthrop and, 149; at Bahia Blanca 178; at Puerta Galvan, 179 BUENOS Aires-Rosario Railway, 141-2 BUENOS Aires Province, population of, 63; five years drought in, 90; cattle raising in, 130; cereal growing district of, 152; Hirsch Jewish colony in, 238 CAJA de Conversion, effect on credit of, 263; gold reserve of, 263 CALTHROP, Mr. Guy, and Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway, 149-50 "CAMP" life in, 67, 223, _et seq._ CAMP towns, ugliness of, 226 CANADA and wheat supply, 186 CATTLE, introduction of, by Spaniards, 95, 117; wild herds of, 95, 117; wild dogs and, 97; improvement and increase of, 99; numbers of, 122; and importation embargo in England, 130-1