Comparatively few women from Spain have entered the New World. The Indians have formed the mothers of the Peruvians and their neighbours, from Presidents and Cabinet Ministers downwards. These poor women, who have been outraged, starved, murdered, or burnt alive, are of their own flesh. What reparation will Peru make to expiate these terrible outrages against man and Nature? How will it compensate the relatives of the murdered, or the scarred and ruined survivors? Furthermore, what reparation will the European shareholders of the now liquidated company make? The pressing necessity for Peru--as for every other land and nation--is to awaken to the necessity for a new doctrine and science regarding the disposal of the resources of the earth and the enjoyments of its fruits by those who have their being upon it. Until this is done, commercialism and oppression will continue to go hand in hand. EDITOR. INDEX ABISINIA, rubber station, 245 Aborigines, _see_ Indians Aborigines Protection Society, 31-2 Absentee capitalism, evils of, 49 Abuses, first mention of, 21-2, 24 Acosta, Eugenio, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 307 Acosta, General, 146 Agent, confession of an, 233-6 Agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company, _see_ Acosta, Agüero, Alcorta, Calderon, Delgado, Esmeralda, Fonseca, Jiménez, Loayza, Lúrquin, Macedo, Martinengui, Montt, Muñz, Negrete, Norman, Normand, O'Donnell, Rengifo, Rodríguez, Torres, Velarde, Zumaeta Aguarunas, native tribe, 16 Agüero, agent of Peruvian Amazon Company, 217; crimes of, 237-8, 241, 244, 255, 257 Alarco, Abel, 200, 210 Albarracin, Lieutenant, 190 Alcorta, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 232 Alligators, 112-3, 115; escape from, 122 _Amapá_, Brazilian war launch, 225; forests of, 17 Amazon, the, 12-13; discovery and history of, 13-14; difficulties of governing, 35; value of, 37; forests of, 74 "Amazons," origin of legend, 14 America, North, _see_ United States America, South, 13 American Consul at Iquitos, 45 Americans, oppressive treatment of Indians by, 49 Andes, 17 extinction of native labour in, 26-7 Andoques, native tribe, 194 Anti-Slavery Society, _see_ Aborigines Protection Society Apostolic Prefect, Report of the, 297 Atrocities, Hardenburg's first account of, 28; publication of, in London, 29; denial of, by Peruvian Government and the Peruvian Amazon Company, 29 Arana, J. C., charges against, 32, 180; rise of, 199, 200; visits London, 201; founds London syndicate, 201, 210, 211, 217-19 Arana Bros., import negroes, 40, 200; charges against, 215, 271-2 Arana, Lizardo, 200 Argelia, 167; trouble at, 170-1 Arrests, attempted, 333 Arrows, poisoned, 36, 59 Authorities, guilt of, 26 Aztecs, 20 BARBADOS men, employed by Peruvian Amazon Company, 33; crimes committed by, 39; protests of, 40; themselves tortured, 40, 45, 208; charges against, 266-7, 270-8, 280, 312, 315 Bearers, starvation of, 304-5 Becerra, Don Rogero, 129