HORSE breeding, excellence of, 65-6; development of, 123
HORSE, first introduction of, 119; increase of, 119, 122
HORSE-RACING, at Palermo, 28; universality of, 107, 122; at Alta Gracia, 172-4; the Gaucho and, 228-9
HUDSON, W. H., "The Naturalist in La Plata," 93
IMMIGRANTS, Italians as, 10, 25, 53, 224; nationalities of, 63; typical English, 109-10; and political agitation, 241
IMMIGRATION, inducements for, 53; organisation of, 203, 223
INDIANS, of Chaco district, 91; and horse and cattle stealing, 98; of Corrientes, 266
IRRIGATION, Government work in, 60; results of, 116; State and railway works for, 144, 150; in Mendoza, 208-9; in sugar district, 253
ITALIANS, as immigrants, 10, 25, 53; preponderance of, 224
IRAOLA, Señor Pereyra, and champion bull, 152
JEWISH Colonisation Society, the, 237, 238
JEWS, and wheat market, 23, 55; population of, 236; agricultural colonies of, 237-40
JUAN de Rivadaneira, Fray, and introduction of horses, 120
LABOUR, conditions of, 54; scarcity of, on _estancias_, 243, 252; influence of scarcity of, on industrial development, 257
LABOUR troubles, frequency of, 84; in Buenos Aires, 258
LAND, profits on sale of, 47, 53, 64-5; ownership and labour on, 52 _et seq._; conditions of ownership in, 188-9
LAND values, 65; at Rosario, 157; at Bahia Blanca, 177; in Mendoza, 204
LA PLATA, 19; description of, 36-8; slaughter-houses at 70; university at, 78; and frozen meat trade, 124
LATIN American, Spanish immigrants to, 2; range of, 3; possibilities of, 4; riches of, 5
LATIN immigrants at Rosario, 154; as farmers, 193
LATIN races, as emigrants, 3, 9, 25, 53; as seen in South America, 24, 59
LIEBIG Co., and meat extract trade, 129, 269; cattle-breeding station of, 268
LIVE stock, value of exportations of, 60, 67; and importation embargo in Britain, 131
LOCUSTS, depredations of, 61, 70, 233; and sugar districts, 254
LONDON and River Plate Bank, gold reserve of, 263
MACKIE, Mr., on Pan-American railway scheme, 277
MANUFACTURING resources, possible development of, 257 _et seq._
MAR DEL PLATA, 53; life at, 235; Great Southern Railway and, 151
MARES, distaste for, and slaughter of, 119
MENDOZA, Viticulture College at, 57, 58, 80; the railway and, 147; situation and population of, 199; life in, 200-1; earthquakes in, 201; Western Park at, 202; schools in, 205; English club in, 212