hotels of, 472;
journey from Buenos Ayres to, 506, 510;
Liberal party in, 493;
marriage in, 494;
men of Irish descent in, 475;
nomenclature peculiar to, 483;
opera-house in, 470;
peonage in, 503;
plunder from Peru in, 471;
political struggle in, 493;
Presidential election in, 495;
Protestantism in, 496;
railroad facilities of, 464, 481;
railroad from to Buenos Ayres, 510;
Santa Lucia Park in, 467;
“Señor May” in, 499;
shops of, 465;
superstition in, 499;
women of, 458, 461, 472, 484, 498.
Santos, President of Uruguay, 593, 613.
Sarmiento, ex-President of Argentine Republic, 557.
Selkirk, Alexander, on Island of Juan Fernandez, 452.
Sinibaldi, Vice-President of Guatemala, 113.
Sirroche disease, the, 423
Smyth’s Channel, beauty of, 516.
Soldiers, Peruvian, 348.
Soto, De, President of Costa Rica, 222.
Soto, Marco A., President of Honduras, 117.
South America, desert on west coast of, 342;
freight charges on west coast of, 298;
Yankees of, 542.
Sterling, Bishop, missionary work of, 521.

T.
Tapioca, how made in Paraguay, 650.
Taylor, William, his adventure with cannibals in Patagonia, 525.
Tegucigalpa, city of, 128.
Terra del Fuego, cannibalism in, 524;
Indians of, 518;
missionary work in, 521.
Theatre Yturbide, Mexico, 22.
Timber regions of Paraguay, streams in, 656.
Titicaca, Lake, 428.
Tobacco, cultivation of in Paraguay, 655.
Tropical vegetation, beauty of near Guayaquil, 302.
Tropics, fleas in the, 260.
Tumbez, petroleum deposits near, 344.
Tunguragua Volcano, Ecuador, 324.

U.
Union of Central America, plan, etc., 104, 106-108.
United States, trade with Argentine Republic, 553.
University of Argentine Republic, 556;
of Costa Rica, 218;
of Venezuela, 272.
Uruguay, architecture of, 607;
army of, 610;
beggars of, 610;
birth statistics of, 598;
Catholic Church in, 612, 615;
cattle in, 600, 602;
censorship of the press in, 620;
commerce of, 600;
customs peculiar to, 603, 607, 609-611, 615, 618, 620;
decay of Romanism in, 612, 615;
growth of, 596;
ignorance concerning, 591;
living cheap in, 598;
Methodist Church in, 615;
mining in, 592;
newspapers in, 616;
population of, 599;
Protestantism in, 612;
railroad system of, 599;
resources of, 596, 598;
revolution in, 592;
Santos, President of, 593, 613;
Vidal, President of, 596;
wealth of, 599, 600;
women of, 607;
Wood, Rev. Thomas, in, 614;
wool product of, 601.

V.
Valparaiso, character of people of, 458, 472, 475, 480;
city of, 456;
commerce of, 455, 457;
customs peculiar to, 458, 461-464, 469, 472, 475, 480, 483, 487, 498;
female street-car conductors in, 458, 461;
harbor of, 454;
intemperance in, 458;
the prejudice against United States in, 454;
steamship communication with, 456, 480, 488;
women of, 461.
Venezuela, architecture of, 273, 284;
Blanco, Guzman, Dictator of, 269, 286, 291;
Bolivar, Simon, exiled from, 266;
Boulton, Bliss & Dallett’s steamers to, 257;
burial customs in, 280;
chocolate production in, 294;
coffee plantations in, 293;
Congress of, 274;
customs peculiar to, 270, 271, 273, 276, 277, 280, 281, 284, 292;
downfall of Romish Church in, 277, 290;
Federal Palace of, 272;
Humboldt in, 262;
Middleton, British Minister to, 265;
political progress in, 266;
population of, 266;
ruins of old Spanish forts in, 259;
schools of, 270;
social customs of, 281, 284;
telephones in, 271;
University of, 272;
voyage from New York to, 257;
women of, 281;
Yellow House, official residence of the President of, 275.
Venezuelan independence, relics of, 276.
Vicuña, the, 423.
Vidal, President of Uruguay, 596.

W.
Walker, filibuster, in Nicaragua, 152, 165.
War with Brazil and the Argentine Republic, Paraguay’s, 625;
with Chili, Peru’s, 388, 434.
Washington, town of, 569.
Watering-place, the Venezuelan, 291.
Wheelwright, Wm., in Buenos Ayres, 562.
Winslow, the forger, in Buenos Ayres, 562.
Wood, Rev. Thomas, missionary in, Uruguay, 614.
World, highest town in the, 423.

Y.
Yellow House, Venezuela, 275.
Yerba mate of Paraguay, 651.
Yturbide, family of, 9;
romance of, 13;
Theatre, 22.
Yzalco Volcano, San Salvador, 179, 188.