MILES. Western Telegraph Company 470 River Plate Telegraph Company 180 Telegraph and Telephone Company of the River Plate 205 National Government cable 10 ------ Total 865 TELEGRAPHS. MILES. National Government Telegraphs 1,740 Oriental Telegraph Company 1,030 River Plate Telegraph Company 328 Telegraph and Telephone Company of the River Plate 300 ------ Total 3,398 TELEGRAPHS (RAILWAY SYSTEM). MILES. Central Uruguay Railway Company 2,138 Midland Railway Company 198 Northern Railway Company 71 North Western Railway Company 112 Eastern Railway Company 32 Local companies 39 ------ Total 2,590 TELEPHONES. MILES. Montevideo Telephone Company (British) 10,845 The Co-operative Telephone Company (Uruguayan) 4,375 National Government lines for police service 2,188 ------ Total 17,408 SUMMARY MILES. Cables (Telegraphs) 865 Public service 3,398 Railway service 2,590 Telephones 17,408 ------ Total 24,261 POSTAL SERVICE The Revenue from the Postal Services for the year 1909 amounts to £132,307, and the expenditure as authorised by the Government £106,085. [Illustration: URUGUAY London: T. Fisher Unwin] INDEX A Aborigines (138-150); various tribes, 138; character of, 139; ethics, 140; marriage, 141; warfare, 142; weapons, 143; burial, 143-4; superstitions, 144-5; question of cannibalism, 145-6; introduction of horses to, 147; hostility to whites, 147 Administration, 312-3. _Agnes C. Donohoe_, Canadian sealing-schooner, seized, 295 Agricultural societies, 259 Agriculture (_See Estancias_, _Industries_, _Cereals_); proportion of soil in cultivation, 331 Alfalfa, 205 Alvear, defeats Otorgues, 70; deposed by Thomas, 72 Amethysts, 235, 289 Aguirre, President, 121 Arachanes Indians, 150