Through South America

Name: Through South America
Author: Van Dyke, Harry Weston

Van Dyke, Harry Weston

South America -- Description and travel; South America -- History

PERU, HISTORIA GENERAL. (Translated.)               _Garcilaso de la Vega_

 PERU, HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF.                    _William H. Prescott_

 PERU: INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN THE LAND OF THE
   INCAS.                                                _E. George Squier_

 PERU, THE OLD AND THE NEW.                         _Marie Robinson Wright_

 PURPLE LAND THAT ENGLAND LOST, THE.                         _W. H. Hudson_

 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES OF THE
   EQUATOR.                                            _Sir Edward Whymper_

 TRAVELS IN THE WILDS OF ECUADOR.                          _Alfred Simpson_

 URUGUAY.                                                    _W. H. Koebel_

 URUGUAY, A HANDBOOK ISSUED BY.                    _The Pan American Union_

 VENEZUELA.                                         _William Eleroy Curtis_

 VENEZUELAN REPUBLICS, THE COLOMBIAN AND.              _William L. Scruggs_

 VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA, JOURNAL OF AN
   EXPEDITION ACROSS.                                       _Hiram Bingham_

 WILDERNESS, OUR SEARCH FOR A.                 _Mary Blair and W. C. Beebe_

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                                 INDEX


 Aconcagua, Mt., 280-282, 283-284, 366.

 Agassiz, Louis, exploration of Amazon by, 139-140.

 Agriculture, in Brazil, 136;
   in Argentina, 191-192;
   in Uruguay, 235;
   in Bolivia, 262-264;
   in Ecuador, 355-359;
   in Colombia, 379-380;
   in Venezuela, 418-419.

 Alcantara, Francisco, 42, 84.

 Almagro, Diego de, 38, 41, 42, 43, 68, 75-76;
   leads expedition into Chile, 76;
   disappointed and repulsed in Chile, returns to Peru and wars against
      the Pizarro brothers, 79-81;
   death of, 81;
   followers of, assassinate Pizarro, 83-85.

 Alpaca, the, in Peru, 47;
   in Argentina, 216.

 Altar, El, volcano, Ecuador, 367.

 Alvarado, Alonso de, 82.

 Alvarado, Pedro de, 75-76.

 Amambay Mountains, 241.

 Amazon River, discovery of, 81;
   description of, 137 ff.;
   sources of, in Peruvian Andes, 322.

 Andes Mountains, nature of, in Chile, 277-288;
   railway through the, 280;
   in Peru, 321;
   in Colombia, 375-376.

 Animals of Amazon country, 141.

 Antofagasta, city of, 292, 293-295.

 Antofagasta, Province of, 287, 290.

 Antofagasta-La Paz railway, 261.

 _Araucana_ of Ercilla, 102-103.

 Araucanian Indians, 101 ff.;
   wars of the Spanish with, 102-103;
   customs, religion, and dress, 104-105;
   Valdivia’s war with, 106-109;
   treaties between Spanish and, 110-111.

 Architecture, styles of, in South American cities, 232-233.

 Arequipa, city of, 82, 332-333;
   Harvard Observatory at, 333-334.

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