Rubber, production of, in Brazil, 136-137.
Rubber estate, description of a, 149-150.
Ruhl, Arthur, quoted, 169, 173-176, 303-305.
Ruins, prehistoric, 46; of Tiahuanaco, 48, 271-273; about Lake Titicaca, 338-339; of Sacsahuaman, 343, 346-349.
Sacsahuaman, ruins of, 52, 78, 343, 346-349.
San Francisco Xavier, University of, 267.
San Martín, General José de, 123-124; crossing of the Andes by, 125-126, 279; defeats Royalist army in Chile, 126; liberates Peru from Spanish rule, 127-128; voluntary retirement of, 129-130; tomb of, in Buenos Aires, 130.
Santa Candelaria, convent of, Cartagena, 396.
Santa Catalina, convent of, in Cuzco, 350.
Santa Lucia, hill and fortress of, 99-100, 301.
Santiago, Chile, founding of, by Valdivia, 99-100; mentioned, 287; description of, 299-307.
Santo Domingo, convent of, in Cuzco, 350.
São Salvador da Bahia, 34, 153, 154, 159-160.
Scruggs, William L., on Colombia’s commercial possibilities, 398-399.
Sheep-raising, Rio Grande do Sul, 186; in Argentina, 191, 216; in Patagonia, 224-225; in Uruguay, 235.
Silver, from Mt. Potosí, 265. _See_ Mineral resources.
Slavery, reduction of Peruvian Indians to, by the Spanish, 77; introduction of negro, 403.
Spain, mistaken colonial policy of, in South America, 113-120; revolt of South American countries against, 120-121.
Spaniards, numbers of, in Buenos Aires, 203.
Steamships, German, at Buenos Aires, 200; on Paraná River, 226.
Sucré, Antonio José de, 131, 132, 259, 266.
Sugar, beginnings of production of, in Brazil, 34.
Sugar Loaf, peak of, bay of Rio de Janeiro, 162.
Sun, worship of, by Peruvian Indians, 50, 57-58, 335-336, 337.
Theater, the Amazonas, at Manãos, 145-146; the Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, 166; at São Paulo, 180; the Solis, in Montevideo, 231.
Theaters, at Belém, 152; in Buenos Aires, 206, 207.
Tobacco from Province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 358.
Trade, restrictions placed on South American, by Spain, 118-120; of United States of Brazil, 135-136; of Argentina, 191-192. _See also_ Commerce.
Trees, of Brazil, 142, 143; in Montevideo parks, 231-232; of southern Chile, 286-287, 309-310; of Ecuador, 355-356, 363-364.
United States, trade between Brazil and, 136; smallness of commerce of, with Argentina, 201; fewness of people from, in Buenos Aires, 203; commerce between Chile and, 277; trade of, with Colombia, 398; trade with Venezuela, 419.