Chile and Her People of To-day / An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History and Advancement of the Chileans, and the Development and Resources of Their Country

by Nevin O. Winter

United States, Hydrographic office: The West Coast of South America. Washington, 1890.

Vincent, Frank R.: Round and about South America. New York, 1890.

Wiborg, Frank: A commercial traveller in South America. New York, 1905.

Wright, Marie Robinson: The Republic of Chile. Philadelphia, 1905.

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INDEX

• Aconcagua, Mt., [7], [48], [149], [164], [169].
• Aconcagua, province of, [15].
• Aconcagua River, [153].
• Agriculture, [10], [93], [98], [213], [360];
• school of, [232].
• Aguardiente, [112], [194].
• Alacaloofs, [142-4].
• Albano, Elias Fernandez, [358].
• Almagro, Diego de, [15].
• Alpaca, the, [174].
• Altitude, the lure of, [165].
• Americans, [187].
• Ancients, [65].
• Ancon, Treaty of, [335].
• Ancud, [111].
• Andes, the, [6], [21], [121], [156-173].
• Anglican Church, [278].
• Antarctic Circle, [120].
• Antarctic Sea, [3], [122].
• Antofagasta, [42], [180], [254], [255];
• capture of by Chile, [318];
• by revolutionists, [346].
• Araucanians, the, [15], [96], [196], [212 et seq.], [278], [281], [341].
• Arauco, [190].
• Architecture, [241].
• Area, [1], [393].
• Arequipa, [29].
• Argentina, [17], [138], [156], [159-161], [201];
• dispute with, [313], [356].
• Arica, [33-38], [253], [326], [327].
• Aristocracy, [85].
• Army, [370].
• Arrieros, [158].
• Arteaga, Colonel, [324].
• Artistic element, [241].
• Ascensors, [47].
• Atacama, desert of, [315].
• Australia, [190].
• Aymara Indians, [323].
• Bahia Blanca, [106], [257].
• Balboa, [20].
• Balmaceda, José Manuel, [338 et seq.], [357];
• death of, [353].
• Balmacedists, [40].
• Baltimore incident, [383].
• Banking, [209], [372].
• Baquedano, General, [331], [337], [352].
• Bargaining, [33], [82].
• Bautista, San Juan, [62].
• Beagle Channel, [140].
• Bible societies, [279].
• Bibliography, [402].
• Bio-Bio River, [8], [95], [105], [215].
• Birds, [30], [113].
• Boer colonies, [378].
• Bolivar, [290-2].
• Bolivia, [6], [17], [30], [35], [253], [315];
• war with, [314 et seq.]
• Bomberos, [51], [134].
• Borax, [180].
• Brandy, [112].
• Bravery, [17].
• Brunswick, peninsula of, [6].
• Buendia, General, [324].
• Buenos Aires, [139], [161], [242], [259], [297].
• Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway, [160].
• Bulnes, General, [204], [307].
• Cabinet, the, [12].
• Cacti, [148].
• Cadiz, [282].
• Calaguayas, [225-9].
• Caldera, [43], [189].
• Caleta Buena, [254].
• California, [245].
• Callao, [27], [290], [326], [397].
• Calle-Calle River, [8].
• Capricorn, Tropic of, [42].
• Caracoles, [156], [189], [259].
• Castro, [111].
• Casuchas, [157], [286].
• Cattle, [360].
• Cautin River, [100].
• Centennial, first, [380].
• Chacabuco, battle of, [294].
• Chacao, [111].
• Charities, [78], [234].
• Characteristics, [194].
• Charles IV., [283].
• Chiloé, [3], [108-111], [303].
• Chimborazo, Mt., [166].
• Christ of the Andes, [161].
• Chimneys, absence of, [73].
• Chincha Islands, [28].
• Chillan, [232].
• Chorrillos, battle of, [330-332].
• Church, the, [84], [261 et seq.], [311], [337], [364];
• wealth of, [268].
• Clark, John and Matthew, [259].
• Climate, [2], [122], [149], [192].
• Clubs, [86].
• Coal, [190], [257].
• Cochrane, Lord, [106], [112], [208], [298-301].
• Colleges, [276].
• Colombia, [290].
• Comision Conservada, [344].
• Commerce, [50], [372-5], [387].
• Concepción, [4], [92], [105-6], [190], [286], [308].
• Condors, [155].
• Conductors, women, [58].
• Congress, [11], [209], [365-7];
• power of, [305], [340], [343], [356].
• Congress, Palace of, [76].
• Constitucion, city of, [103].
• Constitution, [270].
• Convents, [268].
• Conway, Sir Martin, [167], [168].
• Copiapó, [15], [43], [244], [253].
• Copper, [189].
• Coquimbo, [4];
• province of, [255].
• Cordilleras, the, [91].
• Cordoba, [245].
• Corral, [107].
• Corruption, [368].
• Corso, the, [85].
• Cotopaxi, Mt., [166].
• Council of State, the, [13].
• Courts, [13].
• Courting, [205].
• Cousiño family, [74], [104].
• Cousiño Park, [73], [75].
• Creoles, [193].
• Crimes, [197], [285].
• Cross, Southern, [20].
• Cruelty, [348].
• Cruelties of Spaniards, [216].
• Crusoe, Robinson, [61].
• Cueca, La, [75].
• Cumbre, El, [162].
• Customs, [87], [144], [205].
• Cuyo, province of, [293].
• Cuzco, [29].
• Darwin, Charles, [108], [178].
• Debt, foreign, [376].
• Deputies, chamber of, [345].
• Desert, [32-40];
• the nitrate, [178 et seq.]
• Desolation Island, [128].
• Development, [377].
• Disasters, ocean, [36].
• Doctor, Indian, [225-229].
• Dogs, [100].
• Dominican Friars, [269].
• Drake, Sir Francis, [34], [125].
• Drunkenness, [193], [199], [201].
• Earthquake, [52], [273], [363].
• Easter Island, [4], [65].
• Ecuador, [22], [164], [270], [290].
• Education, [230 et seq.], [341].
• Elections, [13], [368].
• Encalada Manuel Blanco, [303].
• England, Church of, [278].
• English, [50], [186], [192], [208-9].
• Equator, [20].
• Errázuriz, Federico, Sr., [311-2].
• Errázuriz, Federico, [355-6].
• Espinar, Colonel, [324].
• Espiritu, Cafe, [123].
• Exchange, [400].
• Exports, [374], [387].
• Falkland Islands, [134].
• Famine, Port, [135].
• Farms, [101].
• Ferdinand VII, [283].
• Fertilizers, [184].
• Fiestas, [83], [273].
• Fire department, [51].
• Fire, Land of the, [120 et seq.]
• Firemen, [134].
• Firelanders, [143-8].
• Fish, [30], [112].
• Fitzgerald, E. A., [169-171].
• Forests, [114], [361].
• Freire, General, [302-3].
• French, [50].
• Frowards, Cape, [132].
• Fruits, [95], [110].
• Fuegian Archipelago, [108], [120 et seq.], [126].
• Fuego, Tierra del, [2], [3].
• Gambling, [362].
• Germans, [50], [102], [192], [207], [370].
• Glaciers, [128].
• Gold, [129], [188].
• Governors, [14].
• Government, [11], [364].
• Grace, W. R., & Co., [375].
• Graft, [252].
• Grapes, [361].
• Grau, Admiral, [320-2].
• Great Southern Railway, [257].
• Grube, [113].
• Guanaco, [132], [145], [173].
• Guano, [28].
• Guayaquil, [21], [25], [290], [398].
• Guayacan, [44].
• Guaytecas Islands, [111].
• Haciendas, [69], [97], [149], [224].
• Health, [378].
• Hidalgo, [287].
• Himalayas, the, [165].
• History, [14-18], [124-5], [212 et seq.], [280 et seq.]
• Historians, [240].
• Honesty, [369].
• Horn, Cape, [120-8].
• Huascaran, Mt., [167].
• Iglesias, General, [334].
• Illimani, Mt., [167].
• Immigrants, [102], [378].
• Imperial, [216].
• Imports, [374], [387].
• Incas, [35], [168], [213], [227].
• Incas, Bridge of the, [159].
• Incas, Lake of the, [155].
• Independence, [16], [287], [380].
• Indians, [15], [94], [109], [137], [141-6], [176], [212 et seq.];
• endurance of, [323].
• Inquilinos, [97], [197].
• Insects, [113].
• Intemperance, [83].
• Intendentes, [14].
• Iodine, [183].
• Iquique, [39-42], [254], [277];
• capture of by Chile, [319];
• by revolutionists, [346].
• Irrigation, [95], [97], [151], [377].
• Iron, [190].
• Islands, [4].
• Italians, [50].
• Itata River, [95], [214].
• Jamaica, [398].
• Jesuits, [17].
• Journalism, [240].
• Juan Fernandez Islands, [4], [61].
• Juncal, [155], [258].
• Jungles, [117].
• King William, peninsula of, [6].
• Korner, General, [349].
• La Paz, [29], [38], [43], [76], [254], [398].
• La Serena, [44].
• Lago del Inca, [155].
• Laja, Lake, [257].
• Language, [399].
• Las Cadenas, [351].
• Las Cuevas, [156].
• Las Peñas, Gulf of, [5].
• Lautaro, the Indian hero, [217].
• Libraries, [77], [234].
• Lima, Archbishop of, [265].
• Lima, [27], [398];
• capture of by Chile, [328-334].
• Limache, [150].
• Literature, [234-240].
• Llai Llai, [150], [244].
• Llama, the, [173-7].
• Llanquihue, [256].
• Llanquihue, Lake, [207].
• Lobsters, [62].
• Longitudinal Railway, [250].
• Los Angeles, [150-1], [260].
• Lota, [104], [189].
• Luco, Ramon Barros, [358].
• Lynch, Captain, [326], [328].
• Mackenna, Benjamine V., [72].
• Magellan, Ferdinand de, [120], [124].
• Magellan, Straits of, [6], [11], [120 et seq.], [244].
• Mail service, [158], [284].
• Maipo, battle of, [293], [296].
• Maipo River, [93].
• Malga Malga, [188].
• Mellinca, [112].
• Manta, the, [90].
• Manufacturing, [362].
• Mapocho River, [69].
• Maritime laws, [250].
• Markets, [56], [81], [107].
• Mariguina, [188].
• Marriage, [144], [206], [274].
• Mas-a-Tierra, island of, [62].
• Maule River, [213].
• McKinley, Mt., [165].
• Meiggs, Henry, [245-6].
• Mendoza, [160], [260], [293].
• Mendoza, Garcia, [281].
• Mendoza River, [159].
• Merchants, peripatetic, [56].
• Mercedario, Mt., [164], [173].
• Methodist Episcopal Church, [276-8].
• Military, [370].
• Milk selling, [57].
• Minerals, [188], [361].
• Mines, [254].
• Mining Claim, [362].
• Miramar, [60].
• Miraflores, battle of, [330-3].
• Missions, [138].
• Mollendo, [29].
• Monasteries, [265].
• Money, [90], [376], [400].
• Monroe Doctrine, [385].
• Montt, Jorge, [344], [345], [354-5].
• Montt, Manuel, [307-9].
• Montt, Pedro, [357], [384].
• Montevideo, [284].
• Mortality, [378].
• Mountains, [21], [395-6].
• Music, [234].
• Museums, [234].
• Napoleon, [283].
• Napoleon, Joseph, [283].
• Navigation, [116], [247-9].
• Navy, [371];
• revolt of, [345].
• Newsboys, [81].
• Newspapers, [234-7].
• Nitrate of soda, [38-42], [178 et seq.], [360].
• Novelists, [239].
• Officials, [194].
• Oficinas, [184].
• O’Higgins, Bernardo, [288].
• O’Higgins, General Don Ambrosio, [16], [286], [294 et seq.]
• Ollague, [254].
• Onas, the, [142-7].
• Opera, [79].
• Oroya Railroad, [246].
• Orphanage, [78].
• Oruro, [254].
• Osorno, [107], [223], [251].
• Osorio, General, [296].
• Oysters, [113].
• Pacific Steam Navigation Company, [136], [244], [248], [397].
• Paita, [23].
• Palena River, [113].
• Panama, [225].
• Panama Canal, [386-390], [397].
• Parasites, [115].
• Pareja, Admiral, [310].
• Parties, political, [339], [347], [366].
• Paseo, the, [87].
• Pascua Island, [4], [65].
• Patagonia, [4], [116], [141], [173].
• Peck, Annie S., [167].
• Pelicans, [31], [113].
• Peonage, [198], [282].
• Peons, [97], [197].
• People, [83], [191 et seq.]
• Penco, battle of, [216].
• Penguins, [144].
• Penitents, Ridge of the, [159].
• Penitentas, [203].
• Perez, José Joaquin, [309-311].
• Peru, [17], [185], [186], [269], [290], [297];
• war with, [36], [314 et seq.]
• Pierola, Nicolas de, [330].
• Pillar, Cape, [6], [124].
• Pinto, Anibal, [304], [313], [336].
• Pisagua, [39], [180].
• Pisco, [28], [328], [331].
• Pizarro, [15], [26], [280].
• Placilla, battle of, [350-2].
• Politeness, [86].
• Politics, [195], [364].
• Polygamy, [223].
• Poncho, [223].
• Poopo, Lake, [35].
• Pope, the, [262].
• Population, [393-4].
• Ports, [8], [247].
• Portales, [305-6].
• Porvenir, battle of, [324].
• Postal service, [377].
• Post-office, [284].
• Poverty, [83].
• Prat, Arturo, [40], [209], [320].
• Presbyterian Church, [277-8].
• Press, the, [234-8], [368].
• Priests, [266].
• Prieto, General, [304-6].
• Prisons, [135], [138].
• Protestantism, [271], [275-9].
• Provinces, [103], [393-4].
• Puente del Inca, [159].
• Puerto Montt, [3], [96], [103], [107], [223], [250], [257].
• Punta Arenas, [96], [123], [131-8], [190], [278], [313].
• Quillota, [150], [188].
• Quinta Normal, [73], [76], [232].
• Quinteros, battle of, [349].
• Quito, [26], [398].
• Races, [60], [75].
• Railways, [11], [101], [148 et seq.], [243 et seq.], [363].
• Rain, lack of, [23].
• Religion, [203], [225], [261 et seq.]
• Revolution, [16], [287], [344 et seq.]
• Riesco, Jerman, [356-7].
• Rio de Janeiro, [42], [242].
• Rivers, [8].
• Robinson Crusoe, island of, [4].
• Rodriguez, Zorobabel, [240].
• Rosario, [245].
• Rotos, [49], [83], [110], [196-201], [363].
• Saavedra, Juan de, [46], [222].
• Salitre, [180 et seq.]
• Saltpetre, [180 et seq.]
• Salto del Soldado, [154].
• San Felipe, [152].
• San Francisco, California, [49].
• San Francisco, battle of, [323].
• San Martin, José de, [258], [289 et seq.], [381].
• Santa Lucia, rock of, [70], [91].
• Santa Maria, Domingo, [337-8].
• Santiago, [16], [43], [69 et seq.], [200], [270], [273], [281], [284], [295].
• Sarmiento, Mt., [121], [123], [137].
• Schley, Admiral, [383].
• School, Naval, [233].
• Schools, [51], [231], [233].
• Sea lions, [31].
• Selkirk, Alexander, [63].
• Serfdom, [265].
• Sheep, [3], [127], [136], [361].
• Shopping, [89], [376].
• Sierras, the, [21], [164].
• Silver, [188].
• Soldier’s Leap, [154].
• Sorata, Mt., [167].
• Spain, King of, [262].
• Spain, [17];
• war with, [310].
• Spaniards, [14], [191], [214].
• Sports, [237].
• Statues, curious, [66].
• Strikes, [200].
• Tacna, [37], [250], [253], [365].
• Talca, [94].
• Talcahuano, [105], [257], [296], [345].
• Taltal, [180], [188].
• Tarapacá, desert of, [38], [178], [329].
• Tchili, [15].
• Tehuelches, [141], [212].
• Telegraph, [377].
• Temperature, [117].
• Temuco, [96], [100], [223].
• Theatres, [79], [87], [242].
• Tierra del Fuego, [120 et seq.], [276].
• Timber, [114].
• Titicaca, Lake, [29], [35], [168], [176].
• Todos Santos, Lake, [9].
• Trade, possibilities, [389].
• Transandino Chileno Railway, [258-260].
• Transandino Argentino Railway, [159].
• Travel, [307-400].
• Travellers, fellow, [24].
• Travelling, [152].
• Trinidad, Gulf of, [116].
• Tucapel, [188].
• Tupungato, Mt., [164], [170].
• United States, [36], [50], [327], [373], [381-5].
• Universities, [232].
• Ushuaia, [138-140].
• Uspallata pass, [159], [258], [286].
• Valley, great central, [9], [92 et seq.], [256], [360].
• Valdivia, city of, [96], [107], [188], [300].
• Valdivia, Pedro de, [16], [69], [214], [216-8], [280].
• Valparaiso, [7], [21], [46-59], [148], [209], [233], [310], [348];
• capture of, [351].
• Vandalism, [334].
• Vicuña, [35].
• Vicuña, Señor, [35], [348], [354].
• Villagran, [219].
• Villagran, the, [281].
• Viña del Mar, [59], [148], [350].
• Vineyards, [99].
• Virgenes, Cape, [6], [123], [124].
• Virgins, Feast of the, [77].
• Volcanoes, [7], [67], [94], [395-6].
• War, the nitrate, [315 et seq.]
• Waterfalls, [10], [118].
• Water power, [363].
• Wheelwright, William, [243-5], [253], [258].
• Whymper, Edward, [166].
• Wine, [99].
• Women, [58], [90], [203-7], [271-339].
• Wool, [134], [361].
• Wrecks, [5].
• Yahgans, the, [142-4].
• Yanqui, the, [382].
• Zañartú, Señor, [356].