Chapter C: Caceres, General, 392, 395

Callao, city of, 417;
painter, the, 416;
port of, 353.

Camino Real (Royal Highway), Colombia, 240.

Caracas, Americans in, 282;
earthquakes in, 265;
railroad to, 261;
situation of, 265.

Carera, Dictator of Guatemala, 80.

Carriages, Mexican, 39.

Cartago, Costa Rica, destruction of, 200.

Carthagena, city of, 226;
cathedral of, 228;
fortifications of, 231;
Inquisition in, 227;
Kingsley’s (Charles) description of, 226;
miraculous pulpit of, 228;
preserved saint of, 229.

Carts, peculiar, Nicaragua, 142.

Castro, Don Jesus Maria, 222.

Central America, cable telegraph in, 107.

Cerro del Pasco, mines of, 404.

Chamber of Deputies, Mexican, 21.

Chapultepec, castle of, 5, 43.

Charity, Mexican, 56.

Chasquis, vocation of, 440.

Chili, army of Peru in, 392;
Balmaceda, President of, 495;
character of the people of, 458, 472, 475, 480;
coal-mines in, 488;
commerce of, 455, 457;
climate of, 464;
coca-chewing in, 479;
customs peculiar to, 458, 461-464, 469, 472, 475, 480, 483, 484, 498;
earthquakes in, 483, 499;
English colony, an, 542;
farming in, 489, 502;
female street-car conductors of, 458, 461;
horseback-riding in, 503;
hotels of, 472;
intemperance in, 458;
Irish characteristics of the people of, 474;
journey from, to Argentine Republic, 506, 510;
Liberal party in, 493;
marriage in, 494;
Meiggs, Henry, in, 463, 467;
nomenclature peculiar to, 483;
penitentas of, 462;
peonage in, 489, 502;
plunder from Peru in, 471;
political struggle in, 493;
Presidential election in, 495;
Protestantism in, 496;
railway facilities of, 464, 480;
Romanism in, 493;
rotos of, 479;
saddle of, 504;
scenery in, 509;
“Señor May” in, 499;
shoes of natives of, 484;
shops of, 465;
soldiers of, 352, 479;
Stars and Stripes in, 454;
steamship communication with, 456, 480, 488;
superstition in, 499;
vanity of people of, 476;
women of, 458, 461, 472, 484, 487, 498.

Chimborazo, Mount, Ecuador, 309, 320.

Coca-leaves, use of among rabonas of Peru, 349.

Colombia, aborigines of, 244;
Congress of, 255;
government of, 248;
mines of, 230;
Nuñez, President of, 256;
orchids in, 252;
peculiar customs of, 243, 245, 247, 252;
Romish superstitions in, 228, 254;
steamship line to, 225;
transportation in, 246.

Comayagua, city of, Honduras, 115, 119.

Congress, Mexican, 21.

“Cordillera,” steamship, wreck of, 524.

Corinto, port of, 138.

Cortez, descendants of, 6.

“Costa del Balsimo,” forest of, 192.

Costa Rica, archbishop expelled from, 219;
banana-trade of, 198;
Congress of, 221;
cruising along, 196;
death processions in, 220;
educational system of, 218;
ex-Confederates in, 200;
Fernandez, President of, 221;
flowers peculiar to, 198;
funeral customs in, 220;
Government of, 221;
Guardia, President of, 205;
intelligence of the people of, 218;
morals of the people of, 220;
national musical instruments of, 214;
ox-carts in, 212;
peculiar customs of, 198, 200, 207, 212-214, 216, 220;
politeness of the people of, 218;
Protestant work in, 219;
railroads in, 199, 208;
railroad building in, 205;
religious condition of, 219;
resources of, 223;
revolution in, 207;
Soto, De, Don Bernardo, President of, 222;
transportation facilities in, 212;
women of, 214.

Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador, 320.

Cousino, Donna Isadora, Crœsus of Chili, 487.

Crosses by the way-side, Nicaragua, 141.

Cuaca dance, the, 469.

Curaçoa, Island of, 295.