INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Z

Abisinia, rubber station, 245 Aborigines, see Indians Aborigines Protection Society, 31-2 Absentee capitalism, evils of, 49 Abuses, first mention of, 21-2, 24 Acosta, Eugenio, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 307 Acosta, General, 146 Agent, confession of an, 233-6 Agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company, see Acosta, Agüero, Alcorta, Calderon, Delgado, Esmeralda, Fonseca, Jiménez, Loayza, Lúrquin, Macedo, Martinengui, Montt, Muñz, Negrete, Norman, Normand, O’Donnell, Rengifo, Rodríguez, Torres, Velarde, Zumaeta Aguarunas, native tribe, 16 Agüero, agent of Peruvian Amazon Company, 217; crimes of, 237-8, 241, 244, 255, 257 Alarco, Abel, 200, 210 Albarracin, Lieutenant, 190 Alcorta, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 232 Alligators, 112-3, 115; escape from, 122 Amapá, Brazilian war launch, 225; forests of, 17 Amazon, the, 12-13; discovery and history of, 13-14; difficulties of governing, 35; value of, 37; forests of, 74 “Amazons,” origin of legend, 14 America, North, see United States America, South, 13 American Consul at Iquitos, 45 Americans, oppressive treatment of Indians by, 49 Andes, 17 extinction of native labour in, 26-7 Andoques, native tribe, 194 Anti-Slavery Society, see Aborigines Protection Society Apostolic Prefect, Report of the, 297 Atrocities, Hardenburg’s first account of, 28; publication of, in London, 29; denial of, by Peruvian Government and the Peruvian Amazon Company, 29 Arana, J. C., charges against, 32, 180; rise of, 199, 200; visits London, 201; founds London syndicate, 201, 210, 211, 217-19 Arana Bros., import negroes, 40, 200; charges against, 215, 271-2 Arana, Lizardo, 200 Argelia, 167; trouble at, 170-1 Arrests, attempted, 333 Arrows, poisoned, 36, 59 Authorities, guilt of, 26 Aztecs, 20 BARBADOS men, employed by Peruvian Amazon Company, 33; crimes committed by, 39; protests of, 40; themselves tortured, 40, 45, 208; charges against, 266-7, 270-8, 280, 312, 315 Bearers, starvation of, 304-5 Becerra, Don Rogero, 129 Benavides, Captain, brutal treatment of writer by, 173 Beni River, 23 Birth customs, 154 Bishop, interpreter, 312 Blackmail, alleged, 32 Blow-pipe, 36, 59, 157 Blue Book, 264 Boa constrictor, 101 Board of Trade Journal, 47 Bodoqueda, see Blow-pipe Bolivia, 18 Bonduel, M. Henri, Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 210 Boras, native tribe, 194; at Abisinia, 245, 318 Braga, J. B., witness, 237-40; escapes, 240 Bramall, W., Secretary Peruvian Amazon Company, 210 Brazil, 13, 39 Bribery, 19 British Consul at Iquitos, 41, 45; at Manaos, 40, 45 British hypocrisy, 30-31 British subjects in the Putumayo, 33 Burial, 155 Burning alive, 29, 205, 214, 234, 252-3, 260, 300, 323, 327, 329 Buzzards, 128 CABRERA, José, forced to sell by Arana, 200 Calderon, Colombian rubber collector, 312 Calderon Bros., 200 Campas, native tribe, 298 Campucana, River, 65 Candirú, extraordinary and dangerous fish, 121 Cannibals, tales of, 73 Canoes, 76-7; author’s canoe stranded, 111-25 Capivara, 105 Caporo, Genaro, witness, 256, 330 Casement Reports, the, 20, 32-3, 40, 264-87; further Report, 287-332; last Report, 332-8 Casement, Sir Roger, 33, 46, 264; nature of testimony, 265-6 Castaños, woman stolen from, 226-7, 236 Castration, 205 Castro, Carlos Rey de, Peruvian Consul-General for Brazil, 289 Catfish, 115, 121 Cauca Railway, 55 Cazes, David, British Consul at Iquitos, 41 Chase, witness, 317-21 Chicha, native beer, 66 Children, murder of, 223, 252-3, 319, 328, 331 Chunchos, native tribe, 24 Cionis, native tribe, 78; habits, 80, 86, 99-100, 103 Coca, 160-1 Collantes, Daniel, 263 Colombia, 13, 17 Colombians, 39; oppressed and massacred by Peruvians, 144-5, 220-5; flogged, 227; murdered, 261; discover the Putumayo, 293-4 Commercialism, policy of, 12-13 Commission, the Consular, 33, 40 Commission of the Peruvian Company, 266 Commission of the Anti-Slavery Society, 33 Commission of the Peruvian Government, 41 Community houses, 16, 56-7, 80, 156 Concubinage, 180-1, 206-7, 245 Congo, the, 12, 32, 185 Cosmopolita, launch, 193-4 Cremation, 259 Crichlow, carpenter, 281; put in his own stocks, 282 Crimes, variety of, see Torture, Murder, Flogging, Burning alive, &c. Criminal proceedings, 41 Criminals, names of, 233, 262, 267 Cruelty, a Spanish and Portuguese trait, 37 Cuellar, P., 190 Curare, 59; its effect, 60 DANCES, 161-2 Dancurt, executioner, 44, 248-9 Davis, A., witness, 321-3 Delgado, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 248, 282 Denial, an Oriental trait of Spanish Americans, 29 Development, checked by slaughter of Indians, 27 “Devil’s Paradise,” the, 28-9, 164-214 Diversion, murder and torture as a, 29 Dogfish, so-called, 105 Dogs fed on human flesh, 29, 226, 301, 330-1 Drink traffic, 55 Drunkenness, 246 Duarte, 143-5 Dyall, 283 EARS cut off, 323 Economy of humanity not understood, 27 Ecuador, 13, 17 El Comercio, journal, 23-7 El Dorado rubber station, piracy at, 177 El Encanto rubber station, 15, 168, 177; writer imprisoned at, 178; treatment of Indians at, 179-80, 203, 255 El Oriente, journal, 41 “Englishmen,” so-called, see Barbados negroes English Rubber Company, blamed, 41 Enock, C. Reginald, work and protests of, 20-2; accuses the Peruvians of slave traffic, 24-5, 33, 49-50, 339 Esmeralda, criminal, 230-2 España, Roso, victim and witness, 221-5, 331 FAUNA of the Amazon, 91, 93 Fever, 131 Fire, child tortured by, 226; Indians burned with kerosene and loosed, 239 Flogging, 29, 180, 204, 217, 227, 229-30, 238, 296, 299, 305; tapir-hide whip used, 306; with machete, 306, 325, 331 Fonseca, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 214; crimes of, 228-33, 260-1, 322-3 Forced labour, early, 37 Foreign Office, 32; suppresses Casement Report, 34; publishes it, 34, 46 Forests, 17, 18 Fox, W., 303 Fritz, Padre, 51 Garcilaso de la Vega, 11 Ghiorzo, Lieut., 190, 193 Gold, 54 Gonzalez, Señor, 93, 95-100 Grey, Sir Edward, 32-3, 264 Gubbins, J. R., Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 210 Gulpi, 108 Guevara, B., 190, 195, 231-2 Guineo River, 76 Guineo village, 77-8 Gutierrez, Pilar, victim, 175 Hardenburg, W.E., travels of, 28; suffering at hands of agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 28; publication of his narrative refused, 31, 44; his narrative, 154-263; taken prisoner, 173-4; “bluffs” his captives, 178-9; “bluff” discovered, 195; investigation of crimes, 215; letters to, 240-63 HENSON, Canon, indicts the Peruvian Amazon Company, 50 Huitoto Indians, character and weapons of, 16, 20, 32, 144-5, (149-63); language of, 150-2; habits, 152-3; character, 153-4; birth customs, 154; burial customs, 155; houses, 155-6; dress, 159-60; religion, 162-3; gradual extermination of, 207 to end Humanity, economy of, 47 IBERIAN character, 17, 339-40 Igaraparaná River, 15, 192 “Imperial Commonwealth, An,” 33 Inca language, 56 Incas, laws of, 11, 18, 19; modern, 56-60 Indians, of the Putumayo basin, decrease of, 16; forest tribe, 17-19, 22, 36; of Santiago, 56-60; of Mocoa, 70; the Cionis, 78-86; trading with, 92; extermination of, 196; punishment and torture of, 204-5, 218-19; character of Amazonian tribes, 273; skill of, 285; tribes of, 286; numbers, 289; experienced elderly individuals murdered by rubber-gatherers, and weapons destroyed, 311-12; amazing fidelity and fortitude of, 314-15 Iquitos, 15, 18; output of rubber firm, 47; arrival at, 195 Iquitos, Peruvian gunboat, 172; fires on Hardenburg’s party, 172-3, 244 JAGUARS, 113-4 Jesuits, missions destroyed, 14, 51 Jiménez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 238, 241-2, 246, 260, 326-8 Jornal do Comercio Manaos, 212; translation from, 220-5 Judiciary, Peruvian, independence of, 34; corruption of, 333 KATERENE, native chief, 312 Kaye, Sir J. Lister, Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 210 King, Guy T., American Consul at Iquitos, 195 La Chorrera, rubber station, 193, 203; atrocities at, 225-6, 244, 248, 257-8 LA FELPA, journal, Iquitos, translations from, 215-20, 233-6 La Sanción, journal, Iquitos, translations from, 214, 225-32 La Sofia, rubber station, 94 La Union, rubber station, 15; massacre at, 174-5, 192 Labour, cheap native, 48 Law, not for Indians, 26 Leavine, witness, 330-2 Liberal, Peruvian Amazon Company’s launch, 168, 172, 175, 186, 193, 224, 244 Lima, 18, 34 Lima Geographical Society, 35 Loayza, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 148, 165, 168-9, 176, 178; crimes of, 181; amusements, 187, 203; crimes, 231, 255-6 Lopez, Celestino, agent and witness, 250 Lopez, Jesus, 131-5 Lores, Benito, commanding the Iquitos, 173 Lúrquin, César, procuration by, 191 MACEDO, Victor, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 203, 214, 228-9, 257-9 Madera River, 23 Madre de Dios, 23 Maggots in wounds of victims, 28, 230, 234-5, 299, 305 Magistrates, callous, 316 Manatee, 119 Manguare, native telegraph, 16 Mapp, James, witness, 307 Marañon, 19, 20, 25 Marble, 64 Martinengui, Elias, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 257-8 Martinez, Gabriele, 125; kidnapped, 133, 135-6, 149, 165, 169, 179, 186, 189, 195 Matanzas, 234, 250-3 Materón, Don Octavio, 71, 87-97 Maw, Lieut., 293 Mines, forced labour in, 37 Minister of Justice, Peru, 296 Missions, 33; need of, 50, 52, 293, 296-7, 338 Mocoa, 67-9, 70 Mongolian type of Indian, 20, 291 Monkeys, 123, 137-8 Montaña, the, 27, 35-6 Montt, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 309 Mosquitoes, 136, 192, 194 Muñz, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 230-1 Murderers, see Agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company Murders, 206-7, 216, 233-4, 237, 251-2, 258, 260, &c. Muriedas, J. F., witness, 228 NAHUMEDES, native tribe, 14 Napo River, 15 Negrete, Adan, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 302-3 Negroes, selected for savagery, 39-40 Norman, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 217, 222; crimes of, 225-6, 234 Normand, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 275, 279, 300-2, 330-2; see also Norman O’DONNELL, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 233, 243, 304, 312 Ordoñez, Señor, 141, 143; victimised by Peruvian Amazon Company, 202 Ordoñez y Martinez Rubber Company, 132; persecuted by Arana Bros., 201 Orellana, 14 Orjuela, Don Jesus, 149, 164-5, 170-1; taken prisoner, 171; treatment of, 176-7, 179, 189, 195 PAN-AMERICAN Union, the, 50 Panama, Barbados men at, 40 Paredes, Judge, 41; attempts to blame English, 41-2 Pardo, Don Ramiro, 167, 170-1 Paris, feeling against Peru in, 43 Peccaries, 120-1 Pedro, 70, 71 Perkins, 28, 44, 55, 64, 71, 95, 97, 103, 104; lost, 123, 129, 130, 131, 149, 164, 166, 175, 179; remains at El Encanto, 187; arrives minus baggage, 195 Peru, under the Incas, 11; under capitalism, 12 Peruvian Amazon Company, indictment of, 50, 132; attacks Colombian estates, 132; piracy of, 133, 144; outrage by, 148; treatment of Indians by agents of, 161-3; capture of Hardenburg’s party by troops acting under, 173, 179-80; system of, 181-4; charges against, 134-5; atrocious crimes of agents of, 198-9; origin of the company, 199; founded by Arana, 201; murder and piracy carried on by, 202; labour system of, 204; “punishments,” 204; atrocities committed by agents of, 196 to end; slave traffic carried on by, 209; directors of, 210; charges against, 215, 222-3. Peruvian Consul, denies atrocities, 29 Peruvian Corporation, the, 43 Peruvian Government, compensates author, 28; hypocrisy or ignorance of, 30; exposed, 44; protests against the British attitude, 53; fails to arrest criminals, 265 Peruvian officials, Hardenburg’s indictment of, 38-3 Pizarro, 14 Plantation rubber, the only remedy, 47 Plata Cecilia, victim, 200 Plaza de Oro, 93 Police of the Caraparaná, 125, 133-4 Political exiles, 109 Pongo de Manseriche, 19, 20 Porpoises, fresh-water, 105 Portuguese, cruelty of, 51 Port Maldonado, 23 Portocarrera, A., witness, 230 Prat, Frei, 298 Press, timidity of, 31 Prieto, Señor Gustavo, 165 Putumayo River, 17; sources of, 54, 63; warning to intending labourers on, 216; Indians of the, 216; Sir Roger Casement on, 288 Putumayo Rubber Company, 12 QUEBRADA, San Miguel, 102 Quichua language, 56 Quinine, 93-4 RAPE, 28 Read, H. M., Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 210 Remolino, 141-2 Rengifo, Miguel, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 261 Reyes, President, 68, 93-4 Robuchon, French explorer, disappears, 218-19, 289 Rocca, action by, 228 Rodriguez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 242-3; wholesale murders by, 254-5, 262, 276, 310 Rodriguez Bros., agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 217, 223 Rodriguez, Dr., 248 Roman Church in Peru, 52 Rosas, J., witness, 243 Rubber, cost of, in human lives, 46-7; output of, 47; varieties of, and method of gathering, 94-5, 294-5 Rubber companies, fraudulent, 48 SANCHEZ, DON ALFONSO, 146-7 Sanchez, Ramon, rubber agent, 274-5, 279 San Antonio, 55 San Francisco, 55, 62-3 Santa Julia, 153, 260 Santiago, 55; Indians of, 56-60 Savagery, tales of Indian, 36 Sealey, Stanley, witness, 324 “Secret of the Pacific, The,” 20 Serrano, Señor, 166-8; atrocious treatment by the Peruvians, 148-9, 164-6, 201 Shareholders, ignorance of, 48 Sibundoy, 55; Indians of, 61 Skulls, at Matanzas, 253 Slave raids, 14 Slave trade, in Peru, 21, 51, 209, 297 Smallpox sufferers killed, 241, 243 Spears, 158 Soplín, Carlos, witness, 232 Sorcery, belief in, 71 Sousa, Deiro, Baron de, Director of Peruvian Amazon Company, 210, 241 State Socialism of Incas, 11 Starvation, 304-5, 310 Stench of murdered Indians, 234, 252, 332 Stocks, Indians starved in, 241, 279, 280-1; flogged in, 308 Suárez, executioner, 230 Sugar, phenomenal growth of, 36 Sunday Times, statements in, denied, 211-12 TAMBOPATA, 23 Tapirs, 114, 117-18 Target, Indians as living, 38, 206 Telegraphy, native, 16, 158-9 Texeira, explorer, 14 Tizon, Señor, 303, 307 Torres, Colombian prisoner, 226 Torres, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 323 Torture, as a diversion, 38; varieties of, in use, 184-5, 204-7, 213 to end. See Burning, Flogging, Stocks, Target, Water, &c. Toucan, 123-4 Truth, 30-31, 44, 185, 204, 330-31 Turkey, 127 Turtles, 115-16, 119; eggs, 124, 127 Tunday, see Telegraph Tyranny, a matter of opportunity, 39 UNITED STATES, 28, 42-3; action of, tardily follows British, 46; apathy of Consul and Government, 195 Urdaneta, General, 67 VAMPIRES, 98-9 Vasquez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 262-3, 317-21 Vasquez, Julian, witness, 243, 317-8 Vegetation, 93 Velarde, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 223-4, 309 Venezuela, 13 Victims, names of some, 221 Virginia, Brazilian launch, 225 WATER, torture by, 205, 307 Whiffen, Captain, 324, 330 Witchcraft, belief in, 71 Women, trade in, 21; treatment of, 180-81, 184-5, 198, 206, 218, 220, 226-7, 229, 230-35, 242, 247-8, 253, 261-2, 283-4, 306, 311, 313-14, 316 ZAPATA, Prefect, 197 Zubiaur, Carlos, 187, 192 Zumaeta, Bartolomé, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company, 200, 211, 226-7, 246 Zumaeta, Pablo, managing director of the Peruvian Amazon Company released, 332-3

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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

Peruvian Governmant=> Peruvian Government {pg 41}

Materon=> Materón {pg 105}

Folis pardalis=> Felis pardalis {pg 114 n.}

Loyaza=> Loayza {pg 165 & 166}

Rubber from Matanza=> Rubber from Matanzas {pg 267}

Jiminéz=> Jiménez {pg 324 & 326}

Ghiorgo, Lieut., 190, 193=> Ghiorzo, Lieut., 190, 193 {pg 343}