Besançon, 71
Betances, Ramón Emeterio, 249
Biard (Frenchman), 17
Bilbao, Francisco, 173–74
Billy the Kid, 219–20
Bioho, Domingo, 10
Bismark City, 222
Black Elk (Indian), 212
Blackfeet Indians, 222
Black Hills, 212, 251
Black Kettle, Chief, 213
Boca de Dos Rios, 242
Bogotá, 53, 54, 55, 64, 90, 102, 103, 134, 135, 138, 198, 243
Bois Caiman, 73
Bolívar, Simón, 81, 82, 96, 107, 114, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124–25, 126, 127–28, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 138, 139, 172
Bolivia, 63, 127–28, 130, 138, 188, 197, 208, 218, 223, 254
Bologna, 50
Bom Conselho, 238
Bonaparte, Joseph, 98
Bonaparte, Laeticia, 95–96
Bonaparte, Napoleon: see Napoleon I, emperor of France
Bonaparte, Pauline, 91
Bonifácio, José, 206–7
Bonny, Chief, 45
Bonpland, Aimé, 85, 87–88, 89, 90–91, 92, 135–36, 182
Boone, Daniel, 147
Boquerén Pass, 120
Boston, 192, 244
Bravo, Ignacio, 257
Brazil, 4, 6, 12, 18, 28, 30–31, 70–71, 74–75, 79, 81, 98, 121, 136, 137, 193, 194, 197, 205, 206, 228, 238, 244, 245, 246, 247, 253
Brazilian Academy of Letters, 247
Brébeuf, Jean, 17
Britto Malheiro, Basílio de, 75
Brooke, Frances, 36, 37
Brown, John, 192
Bueno, Bartolomeu, 28
Buenos Aires, 21, 33, 53, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 105, 110, 111, 112, 117, 120, 123, 126, 132, 136, 140, 149, 160, 163, 169–70, 193, 194, 195, 196, 204, 207, 216, 228, 229, 230, 231
Buffalo Bill, 213–14, 220–21, 251, 252
Buffon, Count, 51
Bull Run, 185
Buraco de Tatú, 28
Bustos, Hermenegildo, 236–237
Caballero y Góngora, Antonio, 53, 54, 64
Cáceres, Andrés Avelino, 223–24
Cadiz, 83, 114
Cagigas, Cipriano de las, 184
Calais, 72
Calamity Jane, 251
Calderón de la Barca, Madame, 154
Calhoun, John, 146
California, 166, 167, 168, 169
Callao, 218
Campbell, Pedro, 119, 120
Campomanes (Spanish minister), 66
Canada, 15, 16, 36, 193
Cané, Miguel, 229
Canek, Jacinto, 26–27, 28, 165
Cañete valley, 219
Canning, George, 133–34
Canudos, 238, 245, 246
Cape Coast Castle, 46
Cap Français, 26, 41
Carabaya, 58
Carabobo, 122
Caracas, 81, 82, 83, 106, 122, 138
Carácuaro, 101
Caribbean Indians, 73
Caribbean Sea, 91
Carmo, María do, 80
Carreño, Simón: see Rodríguez, Simón
Carrera, Rafael, 148–49, 158
Cartagena, 10, 55, 139
Cartier, Jacques, 16, 17
Casa Bayona, count of, 79
Cascabel Indians, 143
Castelli, Juan José, 102
Castlereagh, Lord, 111, 134
Castro Alves, Antonio de, 207
Catalina, 10
Catamarca, 95
Catamarca plains, 196
Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 84
Cauca River, 10
Caybaté hill, 35
Central America, Federal Republic of, 148, 150–51
Chalco, 201
Champlain, Samuel de, 16, 17
Chan Santa Cruz, 171, 183, 257, 258
Chapultepec Castle, 160
Charalá, 64
Charles III, king of Spain, 34, 35, 39, 66
Charles IV, king of Spain, 76
Charrúa Indians, 144
Cheyenne Indians, 212, 213
Chi, Cecilio, 165
Chiapas, 86
Chicago, 227
Chicago martyrs, 227, 229
Chicote Hill, 113
Chihuahua, 104
Chilam Balam, 165, 258–59
Chilapa, 104
Chile, 7, 24, 109, 115, 116, 122, 123, 126, 141, 142, 166, 173–74, 197, 218, 223, 224, 228, 233–34
Chilililco, 68
Chilpancingo, 107
Chimborazo volcano, 92–93
Chimús Indians, 39
China and the Chinese, 160, 218–19, 226, 237
Chinchas Islands, 217
Chincheros, 62
Chippewa Indians, 17
Chirigua Indians, 3–4
Chivilcoy, 226
Chocó, 9
Choele-Choel Island, 215, 216
Chorrillos, 218
Christophe, Henri, 114
Chuquisaca, 3, 98–99, 130, 131, 188
Ciriaco y Selda, Matías, 19
Cisteil, 26, 27
Citizen’s Ephemerides (newspaper), 40
Civil War (U.S.), 185–86, 190
Clarke, Pegleg, 46
Clavijero, Francisco Javier, 50–51
Coca-Cola, 226–27
Cochabamba, 106
Cojímar, 32
Colca guerrilla fighters, 224
Colombia, 102–3, 114, 119, 130, 138, 139, 243
Colón, 225–26
Colonia camp, 117
Colonia del Sacramento fortress, 20–21
Colt, Samuel, 148
Columbia, 146
Comanche Indians, 211
Combapata River, 56
Comitán, 86
Common Sense (Paine), 46–47
Condemaita, Tomasa, 60
Condorcanqui, José Gabriel: see Túpac Amaru II
Congo, 209
Congonhas do Campo, 80
Congress of Panama, 133
Connecticut, 148, 192
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 231–32
Conselheiro, Antonio, 238–39, 246
Constantine Hill, 92
Contramaestre River, 242
Contreras y Justíz, María, Ignacia de, 79
Cooper, James Fenimore, 147
Copán, 151
Corá, Mount, 203
Corá Indians, 201
Cornish, Samuel, 192
Coro, 106
Coro, Gulf of, 97
Corrientes, 118, 135
Cortés Larraz, Pedro, 43, 44
Costa, Cláudio Manuel da, 75
Costa Atáide, Manuel da, 80
Costa Cardoso, Joaquim da, 28
Costa Rica, 150, 158, 237
Council of the Indies (Spain), 94
Coylloriti, Mount, 61
Crandall, Prudence, 192
Creole insurrection, 106
Creole language, 73–74, 242
the Creoles, 52, 53, 55, 64, 82, 98, 107, 111, 130, 132, 217, 229
Cristóbal, Diego, 65
Crockett, Davy, 147
Cuba, 32, 78, 79, 146, 151, 161, 184–85, 209, 210, 217, 234, 239–40, 241, 242–43, 247–48, 249, 250, 251
Cuban Revolutionary Party, 239
Cudjoe, Chief, 23
Cumaná, 84, 85
Cunha, Euclides da, 245–46
Cunha, Luis da, 30
Curare (god), 89
Curupaytí, 195
Curuzú-Cuatiá, 110
Custer, General George Armstrong, 212, 213, 251
Cuzco, 13–14, 51, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 65, 87
Dahomey, 29
D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 71
Dampier, William, 7
Dance of the Old Ones, 62
Darío, Rubén, 237–38
Darwin, Charles, 145, 252
David, Jacques-Louis, 96
Declaration of Independence, 47, 48
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 76
Defoe, Daniel
, 7
D’Elhuyar, Fausto, 117
Democrat (newspaper), 256
Descartes, René, 40, 93–94
Deslile, Guillaume, 4
Diario de La Marina (newspaper), 184
Diario do Rio de Janeiro (newspaper), 124
Díaz, Porfirio, 255–56
Díaz de Medina, Francisco, 65
Díaz Vélez family, 112
Diderot, Denis, 40
Dique Canal, 10
Dolores, 100
Dorrego, Manuel, 150
Dos Rios camp, 241
Douglass, Frederick, 192
Ducasse, Isidore, 171, 208
Dumas, Alexandra, 170–71
Dunkirk, 72
Dunlop, John, 244
Dupas Island, 16
Dupont de Nemours, Pierre, 40–41
the Dutch, 8, 45
East Bank Ranges, 105, 112
Echeverría, Esteban, 149–50
Ecuador, 138, 139, 172, 199
El Aleijadinho, 79–80
El Callao, 125
El Correo del Orinoco (newspaper), 120
El Dorado, 4–5, 90
El Mercurio Chileno (newspaper), 164
El Molino, 167
Elortondo y Palacia, Felipe, 163
El Periquillo Sarniento (Fernández de Lizardi), 114–15
El Pípila, 100
El Salvador, 143
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 177
Encyclopedia, Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Professions, 40
Engel, G., 227
Engels, Friedrich, 187, 237
England and the English, 4, 6, 11, 16, 22, 24, 32, 47, 78, 83–84, 97, 98, 110, 111, 129, 132, 133–34, 139, 160, 169, 187, 193, 194, 228
Enlightenment, Age of, 40
Equestrian, Gymnastic, Acrobatic, and Creole Drama Company, 226
Esmeralda del Orinoco, 88
España, José María de, 82
Estomba, Juan Ramón, 150
Evangelista de Souza, Irineo, 205–6
Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, 109, 111
Fernandes de Oliveira, João, 31
Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquin, 114–15
Ferreira, Luis Gomes, 11–12
First Father, 3
First Fruits of Culture (journal), 78
Fischer, A., 227
Flanders war, 77
Fleming, Admiral, 139
Flora (slave), 8
Florence, 96
Flores, Teodoro, 224–25, 256
Flores, Venancio, 194
Flores, Magón brothers, 256
Florida, 239, 248
Fort Dauphin, 93
Fort Laramie, 251
Fort Sill, 211
Fourgeaud, Colonel, 45
France and the French, 4, 15, 16, 17, 36, 40–42, 48, 71, 76, 78, 91, 93, 95–96, 96, 109, 114, 144, 186–87, 237
the Franciscans, 3
Francisco de Paula, Infante, 111
Francis of Assist, Saint, 80
Franklin, Benjamin, 48–49, 50, 71
Franklin, Jane, 49–50
Fredericksburg, 186
Free Fatherland (newspaper), 210
French (Moreno’s friend), 102
French Revolution, 76
Friday (Indian), 7
Furatena (goddess), 90
Gabriel, archangel, 99
Gado-Saby, 45
Galán, José Antonio, 55, 64, 103
Galapagos Islands, 145
Galbaud du Fort, Madame, 42
Galen (patriarch), 11
Galicia, 230
Gálvez, Matías de, 69
Gama, Luis, 207
García, Calixto, 242
García, Romualdo, 235–36
García Pumacahua, Mateo, 62–63
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 170
Garnet, Henry, 192
Garrison, William Lloyd, 192
Gauguin, Paul, 243
George, Saint, 29, 43
George III, king of England, 47, 49
Georgia, 46, 192
the Germans, 4
Geronimo, Chief, 181, 182, 252–53
Geyser, John, 186
Gila River, 181
Godoy, Manuel, 77
Goethe, J. W. von, 93
Gómez, Leandro, 194
Gómez, Maximo, 239, 240, 242
Gompers, Samuel, 251
González Prada, Manuel, 224
Goodyear, Charles, 244
Goya, 110, 164
Granada, 179, 180
Grand Colombia, 138, 139
Grandfather Fire, 19
Grant, Ulysses, 190
Guacurarí, Andrés (Andresito), 118, 119, 120
Guadalajara, 101
Guadeloupe, 92
Guaduas, 64
Guam (god), 89
Guanajuato, 69, 70, 86, 100, 101, 235–36
Guánica, 249
Guaraní Indians, 3, 33, 34, 35, 36
Guaraní language, 204
Guatavita, Lake, 90, 91
Guatemala, 43, 86, 148, 150, 214–15
Guatemala City, 44, 148, 158, 214
Guayaquil, 122, 123
Guelatao, Lake, 201
Guinea, 46, 76
Guthrie, Colonel, 22, 23
Gutiérrez, Ladislao, 163, 164
Guyana, 54, 90
Haiti, 26, 41–42, 73–74, 76, 78, 83, 91, 93, 109, 114, 133, 216–17, 242
Hancock, Thomas, 244
Happy Deceit (Rossini), 140
Harper, Frances, 192
Hartford, 148, 231
Havana, 32, 79, 151, 152, 184, 185, 248, 251
Hawaiian islands, 250
Helms, Anthony, 109
Helvetius, Claude-Adrien, 40
Hernández, Jose, 216
Hickok, Wild Bill, 251
Hidalgo, Bartolomé, 123–24
Hidalgo, Miguel, 99, 100–101, 104
Hispanic American league, 133
History of Emily Montague (Brooke), 36, 37
Hobompich, 258
Holland: see the Dutch
Honduras, 150, 151
Hostos, Eugenio María de, 249
Houston, Sam, 146, 147
Huancayo, 223, 224
Huanuni, 254
Huehuetenango, 44
Huichol Indians, 19–20
Humaitá, 195
Humboldt, Alexander von, 72–73, 85, 87–88, 89, 90–91, 92–93, 94, 96, 217
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 73
Ibiray, 162
Ignacio, Don, 88
Illinois, 190, 191
Inca Indians, 3, 51, 58, 61, 72, 217
Indiana, 190
the Indians, 5, 9, 16–17, 27–28, 43–44, 47, 51, 53, 54, 56, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69–70, 71, 94, 95, 100, 101, 103, 105, 109, 113, 117, 118, 121, 129, 130, 138, 143, 144, 158, 161, 162, 171, 172, 178, 179, 188, 199, 201, 208, 215, 216, 223–24, 232, 244, 245, 252, 255–56, 258; see also specific tribes
the Inquisition, 91, 93, 100–101, 109
International Harvester, 257
Iquique, 227
Iquitos, 245,
Irrazábal, Pablo, 196
Irving, Washington, 220
Isabela, Doña, 88
Italy, 35, 50, 96
Itamaraty, Baron de, 205
Itapoã, 28
Jackson, Andrew, 146
Jamaica, 22–24, 46, 78, 79, 114
James, Jesse, 220
Jefferson, Thomas, 48
the Jesuits, 33, 34, 35, 50, 93, 176
Jesus Christ, 61–62, 79, 219
the Jews, 130
Jiménez, Manuel María, 184
Jontás (slave), 117
Joseph, Saint, 27, 143
Joseph I, king of Portugal, 34, 35
Josephine, empress of France, 95
Juan V, king of Portugal, 21
Juan VI, king of Portugal, 137
Juan Fernández Islands, 7, 24
Juan Moreira (Creole drama), 226
; Juárez, Benito, 186–87, 198, 199, 200, 201, 225, 255
Junín, 127
Junta of Notables, 103
Kansas, 211
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 213–14
Kaskiyeh, 182
Kennion, John, 32
Kentucky, 146, 190
Key West, 239
Kiowa Indians, 165–66, 211
La Bagatela (newspaper), 102
Labat, Jean Baptiste, 109
La Condamine, 244
La Cruz, 176
Ladrones islands, 250
Lafargue, Paul, 202, 219
Lafitau, Joseph-François, 17
La Gioconda (Ponchielli), 245
La Girardière, Millet de, 92
La Guaira, 82, 106, 139
Laimes, Tomás, 224
Lamadrid, Gregorio, 150
Lame Devil (newspaper), 210
Langui, 56
La Paz, 63–64, 99, 127, 128, 164, 188, 189, 197, 254
La Rioja plains, 196
Larrañaga, Father, 116, 140
La Salle, René-Robert, 16
Las Brumas, 238
La Serena, 173, 174
Last of the Mohicans (Cooper), 147
Latacunga, 172
Latorre, Andrés, 121
Laurelty, camp, 121–22
Lautréamont, Count of (Isidore Ducasse), 171, 208
Lavalle, Juan, 150
Lavalleja, Juan Antonio, 120
La Vérendrye, Pierre, 16
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 71
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 177
Leblanc, Admiral, 149
Leclerc, Charles, 91, 93
Lecor, General, 116, 117–18, 119
Lee, Robert E., 190, 191
Le Jeune (Frenchman), 17
Lencastre, João de, 6
Léogane, 42
Le Patriote Français (newspaper), 170
Lima, 13, 37, 38, 53, 65, 123, 125, 127, 134, 138, 139, 208, 218, 219, 224, 243
Lincoln, Abraham, 185–86, 190–91
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 190–91
Lincoln City, 219
Lingg, L., 227
Linnaeus, Carolus, 91
Lira, Eusebio, 113
Lisboa, Antonio Francisco, 79–80
Lisbon, 6, 30, 31, 70
Little Big Horn River, 212–13
Liverpool, 25, 110
Lives (Plutarch), 82
Livitaca, 58
Loayza, Pedro, 113
London, 31, 36, 83, 97, 111, 133, 137, 187, 202, 219, 223, 227
London and River Plate Bank, 253
López, Candido, 195–96
López, Carlos Antonio, 193
López, Estanislao, 121, 150
López, Julio, 201
López, Leocadia, 236
López, Pomposa, 237
López, Rafael, 119
López Rayón, Ignacio, 104, 105
López Ruiz, Sebastian, 65
Lord of the Deer, 19
Louisiana, 146, 161
Louis XVI, king of France, 71
Lovejoy, Elijah, 191
Loyano, Francisco, 85
Lynch, Elisa, 203
Lynch, Patricio), 218
Lyons, 144
Macandal, François, 26
Maceo, Antonio, 216–17, 239
Maciel, Francisco Antonio, 85–86
McKinley, William, 248, 250
Madrid, 35, 39, 66, 77, 87, 94, 111