How have race characteristics affected the commerce and development of these states?
What is meant by peonage?
What cities of the tropical part of these states are in the climate of the temperate zone?
FOR COLLATERAL READING AND REFERENCE
Carpenter's South America.
Vincent's Around and About South America.
Fiske's Discovery of America—Chapters IX-X.
Procure, if possible, specimens of the following: Cacao and its products, ivory nuts, cinchona bark, crude nitrate, Panama straw, iodine (in a sealed vial), llama wool, alpaca cloth, Peruvian cotton.