MARTINETTA, the, 245 MATACOS Indians, 266 MEAT extracts, trade in, 129 MEAT trade and U.S.A., 23, 68 MENDOZA, Viticulture College at, 57, 58, 80; the railway and, 147; situation and population of, 199; life in, 200-1; earthquakes in, 201; Western Park at, 202; schools in, 205; English club in, 212 MENDOZA Province, paper money of, 76; Government of, 203; how strikes are dealt with in, 203; taxation and land in, 204; vineyards of, 206; irrigation in, 208; fruit growing in, 211 MENDOZA River, 147, 208, 214, 217, 222 MERCEDES, 146 MEXICO and cattle, 4 MILITARY service, compulsory system of, 81 MILLIONAIRES, proportion to population of, 64 MOCAYR, Señor Pedro, and U.S.A. influence, 275 MONEY-LENDERS, licences for, 82 MONROE Doctrine and Argentina, 272, 273, 274, 275 MONTE Video, 19; the River Plate at, 90; and jerked beef trade, 128 MUTTON, value of exportations of, 67; prejudice against, 98 NATIONAL Bank of Argentina, gold reserve of, 266 NATIONAL flag, 64 NATIONAL Ministry of Education, 78 NATIONAL Railway Board, influence of, 49, 50 NATIONAL School of Commerce, 79 NATIONAL School of Pilots, 80 NATIONALISATION, Law of, 24, 63, 77 NEUQUÉN territory, irrigation works in, 150 "NORTHER," The, 103 NOUGES Bros., sugar mills of, 252 OBSERVATORY at Cordoba, 165 OGILVIE, Mr. C. P., on alfalfa, 194-7 OIL for fuel, 83, 243 PAGE, Mr., and financial control of South American Republics, 274 "PALACE of Gold, The," 37 PALERMO, fashionable life in, 27; races at, 28 PAMPA, dreariness of the, 89; extent and possibilities of, 181-2 _Pamperos_, the, 91 PARANA River, 90; wharves on, at Rosario, 154; lumber on, 243; highway of Santa Fé, 265-6 PARANA, town of, 268 PARQUE Independencia, at Rosario, 156 PATAGONIA, wilderness of, 89; as sheep-rearing country, 183; stature of natives of, 245-6; pastures of, 246 PEARSON, Mr. C. H., and Central Argentine Railway, 141, 142, 143 PELLEGRINI Law, the, and gold reserve, 263 PERNAMBUCO, 2, 10 PERU, rubber in, 4 PESO, the, 236 PETROLEUM zone, Government reservation on, 243 PILOTS, National School of, 80 PLATE, River, 19; volume of, 90; reclamation of land from, 146; silting of, 155, 176 PLAZA Jewell, Rosario, 156 PLAZA Mayo, "B.A.," 26, 27 PLAZA San Lopez, Rosario, 156 PLAZA San Martin, Rosario, 156 POPULATION, call for, 53; growth of, 63 POSADOS, lumber trade of, 243 PORT Madryn, Welsh colony at, 225 PORTUGAL and frozen meat, 127 POVERTY, non-existence of, 35 PRESIDENT, qualifications and powers of, 72-3 PROPERTY, State regulations on disposal of, 76 PROVINCIAL Council of Education, 79 PROVINCIAL Governments, powers of, 75; relations of, with Central Government, 76 PUERTA del Inca, 219 PUERTA Galvan, 179 QUEBRACHO, the, 92