Chapter D: Dahlgren, Mrs., anecdote of, 372

“Deck trading” in Peru, 347.

Delgrado, General, leader of revolution in Honduras, 120.

Dentists, American, in Buenos Ayres, 560.

Deputies, Chamber of, Mexican, 21.

Desert of Peru, 417.

Destruction of Cartago, Costa Rica, 200.

Devastation of Lima, 365, 391.

Diaz, career of, 30;
inauguration of as President of Mexico, 21;
religious tolerance in Mexico, his, 59.

Diplomatic complication in Guatemala, 103.

Discovery of Argentine Republic, 543;
of Brazil, 687.

Dom Pedro II., love of the people for, 682.

Drake, Sir Francis, sacks Caracas, Venezuela, 262.

E.

Earthquakes in Chili, 483, 499;
in Ecuador, 324;
in Guatemala, 73;
in Nicaragua, 164;
in San Salvador, 187, 192.

Easter Sunday in Mexico, 50.

Ecuador, army of, 319;
Caamaño, President of, 309, 341;
chandny (wind) in, 309;
earthquakes in, 324;
peculiarities of people of, 301, 305, 313, 317, 319, 326, 328, 330, 334, 336, 346, 350;
peddlers in, 317;
postal facilities in, 316;
railroads in, 307;
revolutions in, 341;
Romish Church in, 306, 313, 319, 332, 334, 348;
social condition of, 377;
telegraph in, 308;
transportation in, 315.

Educational system of Costa Rica, 218.

El Gran Chaco, description of, 657.

Emancipation in Brazil, 704.

Empress of Brazil, charity of, 684.

Enterprise in Buenos Ayres, 549, 559.

Evans, W. D., Montevideo, story of, 605.

Exposition buildings in Santiago, 470.

Eyes of Inca mummies, 415.

F.

Falkland Islands, chief use of land in the, 522.

Farming in Chili, 489, 502.

Fenton, Doctor, in Patagonia, 537.

Fernandez, President of Costa Rica, 221.

Filth of Rio de Janeiro, 662.

First capital of Guatemala, 64.

Fleas in the tropics, 260.

Flowers, peculiar, in Costa Rica, 198.

Foreigners in Argentine Republic, 581.

Fortifications of Carthagena, Colombia, condition of, 231.

Founding of Guayaquil, 304.

France, her trade with Argentine Republic, 552.

Francia, “Perpetual President” of Paraguay, 623.

Fuego Volcano, Guatemala, 71.

Funeral customs in Costa Rica, 220;
in Mexico, 34.

Fur-bearing animals in Patagonia, 539.

G.

Gaucho, the, 570, 574.

Gonzalez, Gil, Conqueror of Nicaragua, 154.

Gonzalez, President of Mexico, 22, 26.

Good Friday, celebration of in Mexico, 49.

Government of Nicaragua, 169.

Grace, M. P., his Peruvian contracts, 401, 403.

Grau, Admiral, in Peru, 437.

Grenada, city of, 165.

Guadalupe, cathedral of, 18;
legend of, _ibid._;
treaty at, 21.

Guanaco, the, 427, 540.

Guatemala, assassination plots in, 88;
Barrios, President of, 75, 81;
Carera, Dictator of, 80;
Church domination in, 79;
Church overthrown in, 81;
cochineal cultivation in, 75;
commercial condition of, 98;
costumes of natives of, 89;
couriers in, 92;
customs peculiar to, 88, 97-99;
diplomatic complication in, 103;
earthquakes in, 73;
first capital of, 64;
Hill, Rev. John C., missionary in, 85;
hotels in, 96;
military law in, 95;
monasteries in, 74;
Morazan, Dictator of, 80;
Old, 63;
peasants’ costumes in, 88, 90;
photographers in, 98;
policemen in, 95;
Protestant work in, 84;
railroad system of, 99;
ruins in, 67;
schools in, 82;
second city of, 70;
view of the city of, 61;
volcanic eruption in, 67.

Guayaquil, appearance of, 300;
commerce of, 330;
foreigners in, 305, 311;
founding of, 304;
journey to Quito from, 309, 318;
latitude and longitude of, 299;
street-cars in, 300, 302;
tropical vegetation near, 302, 313.

Gunning, Doctor, in Brazil, 686.

H.

Hacks, Mexican, 40.

Hale, Samuel B., Buenos Ayres, 562.

Hall, Henry C., U. S. Minister to Guatemala, 107.

Halsey, Thomas Lloyd, Buenos Ayres, 563.

Harbor of Buenos Ayres, 548;
of Valparaiso, 454.

Hats, Panama, 345.

Highest town in the world, 423.

Hill, Rev. John C., missionary in Guatemala, 85.

Honda, port of, 234, 238.

Honduras, agriculture in, 122;
Bogran, President of, 117;
climate of, 114;
commercial condition of, 115;
conquest of, 114;
how to reach, 117;
Interoceanic Railway in, 118;
manufacture of chocolate in, 132;
medicinal plants in, 123;
mineral wealth of, 127;
Morazan, President of, 135;
rivers of, 124;
schools in, 134;
shopping in, 133;
Soto’s (Marco A.) flight from, 117;
telegraph in, 125;
transportation facilities in, 124, 127, 131.

Horseback-riding in Chili, 503;
in Mexico, 37.

Horsemen of Argentine Republic, 556, 570.

“Huascar,” Peruvian gun-boat, 437.

Humboldt in Venezuela, 262.

Hurlbut, General, and the Peruvian-Chilian war, 388.