INDEX 
405 
exports, 149; imports, 150, 
151; currency, 152, 153; 
travellers’ tax, 153; cities, 
153; steamships, 154 
Honduras (Spanish), early 
history, 139; present gov 
ernment, 140; area and 
population, 141; topogra 
phy, 144; railways, 145; 
agriculture, 147; forests, 
148; bananas, 149; mines, 
149; exports, 149; im 
ports, 150, 151; currency, 
152, I S3> travellers’ tax, 
153; cities, 154; steam 
ships, 154 
Hotels, Latin America, 250 
Huerta (Victoriano), 158 
Illiteracy, 331 
Imports, Argentine, 375-376- 
377-378 
Brazil, 380-381-382-383-384 
Bolivia, 379 
Chile, 384 
Colombia, 386 
Ecuador, 386 
Paraguay, 387 
Peru, 103-388-389-390 
Uruguay, 391-392 
Venezuela, 393-394-395 
Inconvertible paper standard 
countries, 300 
Intestinal diseases, 370 
Irala, Domingo, 57 
Island of Margarita, 134, 136 
Italian banks, 290 
Iturbide, Augustin, 139, 157 
Ivory nuts (see tagua nuts) 
Jamaica, 206, 207, 208, 209 
Josephine, Empress of France, 
204 
Lake Titicaca, 83, 85, 96, 98 
Latin America, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 
11 
La Paz, 83, 84, 89 
Leeward Islands, 205, 207 
Leprosy, 372 
Letters of Credit, 265, 303, 304 
Letters of Introduction, 258 
Literature for Latin America, 
263 
London and River Plate Bank, 
288 
Long credits, 309 
Lopez, Carlos Antonio, 57-58 
Madero (Francisco), 158 
Mail in Latin America, 264 
Marie Galante (French pos 
session), 205 
Martinique (French), 204, 205 
Medicines for Latin America, 
372-374 
Meiggs (Henry), 97 
Mendoza, de, Pedro, 31 
Merchant Marine, Germany, 
218 
Merchants’ tax in Latin 
America, 257 
Methods of Doing Business, 
224, 227 
Mexico, early history, 156, 
157; revolutions, 158; 
form of government, 159; 
160; population, 161; 
railways, 161; mineral 
wealth, 162, 163; forests, 
163; exports, 164; im 
ports, 165; monetary sys-