Abisinia, rubber station,245Aborigines,seeIndiansAborigines Protection Society,31-2Absentee capitalism, evils of,49Abuses, first mention of,21-2,24Acosta, Eugenio, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,307Acosta, General,146Agent, confession of an,233-6Agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company,seeAcosta, Agüero, Alcorta, Calderon, Delgado, Esmeralda, Fonseca, Jiménez, Loayza, Lúrquin, Macedo, Martinengui, Montt, Muñz, Negrete, Norman, Normand, O’Donnell, Rengifo, Rodríguez, Torres, Velarde, ZumaetaAguarunas, native tribe,16Agüero, agent of Peruvian Amazon Company,217;crimes of,237-8,241,244,255,257Alarco, Abel,200,210Albarracin, Lieutenant,190Alcorta, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,232Alligators,112-3,115;escape from,122Amapá, Brazilian war launch,225;forests of,17Amazon, the,12-13;discovery and history of,13-14;difficulties of governing,35;value of,37;forests of,74“Amazons,” origin of legend,14America, North,seeUnited StatesAmerica, South,13American Consul at Iquitos,45Americans, oppressive treatment of Indians by,49Andes,17extinction of native labour in,26-7Andoques, native tribe,194Anti-Slavery Society,seeAborigines Protection SocietyApostolic Prefect, Report of the,297Atrocities, Hardenburg’s first account of,28;publication of, in London,29;denial of, by Peruvian Government and the Peruvian Amazon Company,29Arana, J. C., charges against,32,180;rise of,199,200;visits London,201;founds London syndicate,201,210,211,217-19Arana Bros., import negroes,40,200;charges against,215,271-2Arana, Lizardo,200Argelia,167; trouble at,170-1Arrests, attempted,333Arrows, poisoned,36,59Authorities, guilt of,26Aztecs,20BARBADOSmen, employed by Peruvian Amazon Company,33;crimes committed by,39;protests of,40;themselves tortured,40,45,208;charges against,266-7,270-8,280,312,315Bearers, starvation of,304-5Becerra, Don Rogero,129Benavides, Captain, brutal treatment of writer by,173Beni River,23Birth customs,154Bishop, interpreter,312Blackmail, alleged,32Blow-pipe,36,59,157Blue Book,264Boa constrictor,101Board of Trade Journal,47Bodoqueda,seeBlow-pipeBolivia,18Bonduel, M. Henri, Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company,210Boras, native tribe,194;at Abisinia,245,318Braga, J. B., witness,237-40;escapes,240Bramall, W., Secretary Peruvian Amazon Company,210Brazil,13,39Bribery,19British Consul at Iquitos,41,45;at Manaos,40,45British hypocrisy,30-31British subjects in the Putumayo,33Burial,155Burning alive,29,205,214,234,252-3,260,300,323,327,329Buzzards,128CABRERA, José, forced to sell by Arana,200Calderon, Colombian rubber collector,312Calderon Bros.,200Campas, native tribe,298Campucana, River,65Candirú, extraordinary and dangerous fish,121Cannibals, tales of,73Canoes,76-7;author’s canoe stranded,111-25Capivara,105Caporo, Genaro, witness,256,330Casement Reports, the,20,32-3,40,264-87;further Report,287-332;last Report,332-8Casement, Sir Roger,33,46,264;nature of testimony,265-6Castaños, woman stolen from,226-7,236Castration,205Castro, Carlos Rey de, Peruvian Consul-General for Brazil,289Catfish,115,121Cauca Railway,55Cazes, David, British Consul at Iquitos,41Chase, witness,317-21Chicha, native beer,66Children, murder of,223,252-3,319,328,331Chunchos, native tribe,24Cionis, native tribe,78;habits,80,86,99-100,103Coca,160-1Collantes, Daniel,263Colombia,13,17Colombians,39;oppressed and massacred by Peruvians,144-5,220-5;flogged,227;murdered,261;discover the Putumayo,293-4Commercialism, policy of,12-13Commission, the Consular,33,40Commission of the Peruvian Company,266Commission of the Anti-Slavery Society,33Commission of the Peruvian Government,41Community houses,16,56-7,80,156Concubinage,180-1,206-7,245Congo, the,12,32,185Cosmopolita, launch,193-4Cremation,259Crichlow, carpenter,281;put in his own stocks,282Crimes, variety of,seeTorture, Murder, Flogging, Burning alive, &c.Criminal proceedings,41Criminals, names of,233,262,267Cruelty, a Spanish and Portuguese trait,37Cuellar, P.,190Curare,59;its effect,60DANCES,161-2Dancurt, executioner,44,248-9Davis, A., witness,321-3Delgado, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,248,282Denial, an Oriental trait of Spanish Americans,29Development, checked by slaughter of Indians,27“Devil’s Paradise,” the,28-9,164-214Diversion, murder and torture as a,29Dogfish, so-called,105Dogs fed on human flesh,29,226,301,330-1Drink traffic,55Drunkenness,246Duarte,143-5Dyall,283EARScut off,323Economy of humanity not understood,27Ecuador,13,17El Comercio, journal,23-7El Dorado rubber station, piracy at,177El Encanto rubber station,15,168,177;writer imprisoned at,178;treatment of Indians at,179-80,203,255El Oriente, journal,41“Englishmen,” so-called,seeBarbados negroesEnglish Rubber Company, blamed,41Enock, C. Reginald, work and protests of,20-2;accuses the Peruvians of slave traffic,24-5,33,49-50,339Esmeralda, criminal,230-2España, Roso, victim and witness,221-5,331FAUNAof the Amazon,91,93Fever,131Fire, child tortured by,226;Indians burned with kerosene and loosed,239Flogging,29,180,204,217,227,229-30,238,296,299,305;tapir-hide whip used,306;with machete,306,325,331Fonseca, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,214;crimes of,228-33,260-1,322-3Forced labour, early,37Foreign Office,32;suppresses Casement Report,34;publishes it,34,46Forests,17,18Fox, W.,303Fritz, Padre,51Garcilaso de la Vega,11Ghiorzo, Lieut.,190,193Gold,54Gonzalez, Señor,93,95-100Grey, Sir Edward,32-3,264Gubbins, J. R., Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company,210Gulpi,108Guevara, B.,190,195,231-2Guineo River,76Guineo village,77-8Gutierrez, Pilar, victim,175Hardenburg, 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,240-63HENSON, Canon, indicts the Peruvian Amazon Company,50Huitoto 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 endHumanity, economy of,47IBERIANcharacter,17,339-40Igaraparaná River,15,192“Imperial Commonwealth, An,”33Inca language,56Incas, laws of,11,18,19;modern,56-60Indians, 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,314-15Iquitos,15,18;output of rubber firm,47;arrival at,195Iquitos, Peruvian gunboat,172;fires on Hardenburg’s party,172-3,244JAGUARS,113-4Jesuits, missions destroyed,14,51Jiménez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,238,241-2,246,260,326-8Jornal do ComercioManaos,212;translation from,220-5Judiciary, Peruvian, independence of,34;corruption of,333KATERENE, native chief,312Kaye, Sir J. Lister, Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company,210King, Guy T., American Consul at Iquitos,195La Chorrera, rubber station,193,203;atrocities at,225-6,244,248,257-8LAFELPA, journal, Iquitos, translations from,215-20,233-6La Sanción, journal, Iquitos, translations from,214,225-32La Sofia, rubber station,94La Union, rubber station,15;massacre at,174-5,192Labour, cheap native,48Law, not for Indians,26Leavine, witness,330-2Liberal, Peruvian Amazon Company’s launch,168,172,175,186,193,224,244Lima,18,34Lima Geographical Society,35Loayza, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,148,165,168-9,176,178;crimes of,181;amusements,187,203;crimes,231,255-6Lopez, Celestino, agent and witness,250Lopez, Jesus,131-5Lores, Benito, commanding theIquitos,173Lúrquin, César, procuration by,191MACEDO, Victor, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,203,214,228-9,257-9Madera River,23Madre de Dios,23Maggots in wounds of victims,28,230,234-5,299,305Magistrates, callous,316Manatee,119Manguare, native telegraph,16Mapp, James, witness,307Marañon,19,20,25Marble,64Martinengui, Elias, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,257-8Martinez, Gabriele,125;kidnapped,133,135-6,149,165,169,179,186,189,195Matanzas,234,250-3Materón, Don Octavio,71,87-97Maw, Lieut.,293Mines, forced labour in,37Minister of Justice, Peru,296Missions,33; need of,50,52,293,296-7,338Mocoa,67-9,70Mongolian type of Indian,20,291Monkeys,123,137-8Montaña, the,27,35-6Montt, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,309Mosquitoes,136,192,194Muñz, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,230-1Murderers,seeAgents of the Peruvian Amazon CompanyMurders,206-7,216,233-4,237,251-2,258,260, &c.Muriedas, J. F., witness,228NAHUMEDES, native tribe,14Napo River,15Negrete, Adan, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,302-3Negroes, selected for savagery,39-40Norman, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,217,222;crimes of,225-6,234Normand, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,275,279,300-2,330-2;see alsoNormanO’DONNELL, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,233,243,304,312Ordoñez, Señor,141,143;victimised by Peruvian Amazon Company,202Ordoñez y Martinez Rubber Company,132;persecuted by Arana Bros.,201Orellana,14Orjuela, Don Jesus,149,164-5,170-1;taken prisoner,171;treatment of,176-7,179,189,195