South America -- Description and travel; South America -- History
Liebig Company’s plant, Fray Bentos, 235-236.
Lima, founding of, by Pizarro, 74-75, 324;
attracts other Spanish adventurers, 75-76;
description of modern, 325-330.
Linseed, production of, in Argentina, 191.
Llamas, in Peru, 47, 340-342;
in Argentina, 216.
_Llanos_ of Venezuela, 418.
Llanquihue, Province of, 278.
Llulaillaco, Mt., 278.
Los Patos Pass, 279.
Lopez, Carlos Antonio, 249.
Lopez, Francisco, 249-251.
Luque, Hernando de, 38.
Macareo River, 416.
Mackenzie College, São Paulo, 179.
Magdalena River, 376;
scenery in valley of, 389-392.
Magellan, Ferdinand, voyage and discoveries of, 25-29.
Magellan, Strait of, 27-28, 225, 310-311.
Mahogany, from Colombia, 380.
Maize, production of, in Argentina, 191.
Manãos, city of, 144-146.
Manco Capac, 45, 69.
Manco Capac II, 69-70.
Mapocho River, 99.
Maracaibo, city of, 404-405.
Maracaibo, Gulf of, 404.
Maracaibo, Lake, 404;
asphalt on shores of, 419.
Maracaibo coffee, 404.
Markham, Sir Clements, quoted, 53-54, 55, 346-349.
Maule River, 97, 101.
Maypú, battle of, 126.
Mbaracayú Mountains, 241.
Medellín, Colombia, 397.
Meiggs, Henry, 331.
Meiggs, Mt., 331.
Mendoza, Pedro de, 113.
Mendoza, city of, 220-221.
Mendoza, Province of, 105.
Mendoza River, 221-222.
Mercedario, Mt., 281.
Mérida range, Venezuela, 404, 405.
Mexico, Cortés in, 30-31.
Michelena, Venezuelan artist, 413.
Minas Geraes, State of, 186-189.
Mineral resources, of Chile, 288;
of Peru, 315;
of Ecuador, 356;
of Colombia, 377-379.
Mining, in Brazil, 136;
in State of Minas Geraes, 187-189.
Miniquis, Mt., 257.
Miranda, Francisco, 130, 421.
Misiones territory of Argentina, 226, 227.
Misti, volcano, Peru, 334.
Mitré, Bartolomé, 197.
Mollendo, city of, 332.
Mompóz, Colombia, 397.
Monserrate, Mt., 385, 387.
Montaña region of Peru, 320, 321-322.
Monteagudo, Bernardo, 129.
Montesino, _Anales del Perú_ by, quoted, 40.
Montevideo, 229 ff.;
comparison with Buenos Aires, 230;
material prosperity of, 230-231;
foreigners, theaters, and club life of, 231;
the Prado Park, 231-232;
houses, gardens, and social life of, 232-234.
Montezuma, Señor, 31.
Moon, worship of, by Peruvian Indians, 50, 57-58, 335-336, 337.
Mosquera Rebellion, 389.
Mountain sickness, 266.
Mozans, H. J., quoted, 23-25, 45, 57, 70, 74-75, 140-141, 271-273, 333,
335-338, 349, 371-372.
Mules, in Argentina, 216;
in Uruguay, 235.
Muzo, emerald mines of, 377, 378, 379.
Nabuco, Joahim, 175.
Negro River, 144, 223.
New Granada, Viceroyalty of, 116, 384-385.
New Spain, Viceroyalty of, 114.
Newspapers of Buenos Aires, 204-205.
Nictheroy, city of, 163.
Nitrate of soda beds, Chile, 288-292.
Nombre de Dios, 118.
North Americans, small number of, in Buenos Aires, 203.
Obydos, city of, 146.
O’Higgins, Bernardo, 124, 125, 126, 279.
Oil, production of, in Argentina, 192.
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