402

INDEX

86;  forests,  87;  currency,
88;  drugs,  87;  travelers’
tax,  89;  cities,  89;  exports, ­
  88-379-380;  imports,
88-379
Bolivar  (Simon),  80,  106,  114
Braden  Copper  Co.,  73
British  capital  invested,  289
Brazil,  192-215;  illiteracy,
332;  imports,  380-381-382-383-384

Brazil,  6,  7,  xo;  area,  13;
boundaries,  13;  population, ­
  14;  discoverer,  14;
history,  15;  language,
14;  early  government,
15;  present  government,
16;  climate,  17;  geography, ­
  17;  coast,  17;  ports,
18;  rivers,  18,  19;  products, ­
  19;  manufactures,
21;  mines,  22;  railways,
24,  29;  hotels,  24;  money,
24;  imports,  25,  26;  exports, ­
  25,  26;  preferential
duty,  25;  steamships,  27;
cities,  29;  travellers’  tax,
30
British  Guiana,  13-15,  191;
early  history,  192;  topography, ­
  192;  temperature,
193;  area,  193;  exports
and  imports,  194,  195;
travelers’  tax,  194;  bank-_
  ing,  195
British  West  Indies,  205
Bubonic  plague,  254-371
Cabot,  Sebastian,  31-57
Cabral,  Pedro  Alvarez,  14
Caicos  Islands,  205

Canadian  banks,  195-206,  299
Canal  Zone,  143;  currency,
152
Carib  Indians,  168
Castro,  Cipriano,  9
Cattle  raising,  172,  179
Caymans,  205
Central  American  Federation,
139
Chicle  (gum)  148,  149,  163
Chile,  13,  32;  discoverers,  67;
Indians  of,  67;  early  history, ­
  67;  government,  68;
area,  68;  coast  of,  68;
mountains,  68;  climate,
68;  population,  69;  foreign ­
  colonies,  69;  railways, ­
  69;  rivers,  70;
ports,  71;  nitrate,  71,  72;
iodine,  72;  copper,  73;
coal,  74;  minerals,  74;
crops,  74;  wine,  74;  cattle,
75  ;  forests,  75;  industries,
75  ;  fruits,  75  ;  exports,  76;
imports,  76,  77;  money,
76;  business  in  hands  of,
77;  travellers’  tax,  77;
cities,  78;  how  to  reach,
78-215,  219;  illiteracy,
331,  356;  imports,  384-385
Clothes  for  Latin  America,
260
Cocaine,  87-101-102
Cocoa,  20,  132,  179,  207,  364
Coffee,  19,  88,  no,  119,  131,
135,  149,  183,  188,  196,  208,
364
Colombia,  13;  discoverer,  114;
early  history,  114;  area,
115;  topography,  115;  climate, ­
  116;  population,
116;  present  government,