FOOTNOTES:
[1]Venezuela, Dalton, South American Series.
[2] Colombia, Eder, South American Series.
[3] Colombia, op. cit.
[4] Readers of Kingsley's grand Westward Ho! will remember the description of La Guayra and the coast here too.
[5] The emissary was instructed to suggest the interesting trade policy of a "goods for goods" exchange: a policy which in Latin America and elsewhere might have an important future.
[6] This natural canal has been well described in The Flowing Road, by Caspar Whitney.
[7] Venezuela, op. cit.
[8] Cf. Colombia, op. cit. Also Venezuela.
[9] Venezuela, op. cit.
[10] Colombia, op. cit.
[11] Venezuela, op. cit.
[12] Venezuela, op. cit.
[13] There is an indication that British Guiana is itself awakening to the need for exerting itself, in order to bring itself before the notice of a somnolent Mother Country. A deputation arrived in England from the colony in the middle of 1919 charged with the purpose of interviewing the Secretaries for the Colonies and Indian Government, and they went through a course of dinners, meetings and lectures, in which the customary excellent speeches were made. Certain of the speakers made the asservations that British Guiana "could supply all the meat, except mutton, consumed in the Mother Country," and sugar and minerals received equal notice, whilst gold, diamonds and bauxite—an ore of aluminium—were also dangled, metaphorically speaking, before the Imperial-minded diners.
To produce these excellent matters, five thousand settlers per annum are required, the word settler being employed as a well-meaning term for coloured labour. There must be a flow of British capital too. But British capital has not very readily been forthcoming. It can be spared for enterprises anywhere in Spanish America, even "wild-cat" schemes, but not for Guiana, apparently.
[14] Guiana, British, Dutch and French, Rodway, South American Series, a most interesting and valuable work.
[15] Guiana, op. cit.
[16] Guiana, op. cit.
[17] Peru, op. cit., where full details are given.
[18] Ecuador, op. cit.
[19] Bolivia, op. cit.
[20] Bolivia, op. cit., where a full account of the rubber industry will be found.
| Total exportation of Brazil in 1906, | £52,000,000 |
| Exportation of coffee " " | £26,500,000 |
| Exportation of rubber " " | £13,300,000 |
[22] Brazil, Pierre Denis, South American Series.
[23] Brazil, op. cit.
[24] Brazil, op. cit.
[25] This is not the case among the business and commercial circles of Rio and San Paolo, where many of the women are educated in Paris and visit it yearly.—[Trans.]
[26] Brazil, op. cit.
[27] Besides being grown in the great sugar centres, the sugar-cane is a staple crop in Brazil. It is most often used, not for the manufacture of sugar, which calls for a costly plant, but for the production of an alcohol, or sometimes a crude kind of sugar known as rapa dura, which is sometimes a kind of molasses, sometimes a sticky cake-sugar.
[28] Brazil, op. cit.
[29] Brazil, op. cit.
[30] Brazil, op. cit.
[31] Brazil, op. cit.
[32] The administrative capital is La Plata.
[33] Uruguay, Koebel, South American Series.
[34] Uruguay, op. cit.
[35] Uruguay, op. cit.
[36] Uruguay, op. cit.
[37] Pronounced, phonetically, "Who-Who-e," with the accent on the last syllable.
[38] Paraguay, Koebel, South American Series.
[39] Paraguay, op. cit.
[40] Patagonia, Hesketh Prichard, London 1911.
[41] Such, for example, as South America as an Industrial Field Koebel, in the South American Series.
[42] Excellent work as regards British trade and general relations was done by the British Diplomatic and Commercial Mission to South America in 1918, under Sir Maurice de Bunsen and Mr. Follett Holt; a Report of which was issued: and some return missions have been sent to England.
[43] Chaves.
[44] Santos-Dumont.
[45] Can We Set the World in Order: a Science of Corporate Life (London, 1916). Also The Tropics: their Resources, People and Future (Grant Richards, Ltd.).