[80] There were, in 1911, 30,000,000 cattle, 68,000,000 sheep, and 7,500,000 horses.
[81] The total amount of British capital invested in Argentine railroads, tramways, banks, and land was, in 1910, £295,000,000. In writing about a country which attracts the world chiefly by its material development it is impossible to avoid figures, but I wish to give the reader no more than are absolutely needed.
[82] There is, however, a small population of mixed Indian and colonial stock in the plateau of the Andean northwest adjoining Bolivia.
[83] 844,000 were from Italy, 424,000 from Spain.
[84] Some remarks upon this obscure question will be found in Chapter XCII of the author's American Commonwealth (edition of 1910). The problem is rather simpler here than in the United States because the recently injected elements are here less various.
[85] I was told that many of the street police are Indians from the north of the country.
[86] They have a mass of readers near at hand and a revenue from advertisements comparable to those which are found in the United States and Australia, but are not found in Spanish America outside Buenos Aires.
Mr. F. Seebey states that, in 1903, 212 periodicals were published in Buenos Aires in various languages or dialects, including Basque, Catalan, and Genoese.
[87] The account of the origin of the red shirt given by Mr. G. M. Trevelyan in his interesting book, Garibaldi and the Defence of Rome, is not quite the same as that which I heard in Uruguay, but not incompatible therewith.
[88] Such legal or quasi-legal questions have arisen several times in Central America.