INDEX

405

exports,  149;  imports,  150,
151;  currency,  152,  153;
travellers’  tax,  153;  cities,
153;  steamships,  154
Honduras  (Spanish),  early
history,  139;  present  government, ­
  140;  area  and
population,  141;  topography, ­
  144;  railways,  145;
agriculture,  147;  forests,
148;  bananas,  149;  mines,
149;  exports,  149;  imports, ­
  150,  151;  currency,
152,  I S3>  travellers’  tax,
153;  cities,  154;  steamships, ­
  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  possession), ­
  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;  imports, ­
  165;  monetary  sys-