Chapter 11

PAN-AMERICANUnion, the,50Panama, Barbados men at,40Paredes, Judge,41;attempts to blame English,41-2Pardo, Don Ramiro,167,170-1Paris, feeling against Peru in,43Peccaries,120-1Pedro,70,71Perkins,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,195Peru, under the Incas,11;under capitalism,12Peruvian 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,29Peruvian Corporation, the,43Peruvian Government, compensates author,28;hypocrisy or ignorance of,30;exposed,44;protests against the British attitude,53;fails to arrest criminals,265Peruvian officials, Hardenburg’s indictment of,38-3Pizarro,14Plantation rubber, the only remedy,47Plata Cecilia, victim,200Plaza de Oro,93Police of the Caraparaná,125,133-4Political exiles,109Pongo de Manseriche,19,20Porpoises, fresh-water,105Portuguese, cruelty of,51Port Maldonado,23Portocarrera, A., witness,230Prat, Frei,298Press, timidity of,31Prieto, Señor Gustavo,165Putumayo River,17;sources of,54,63;warning to intending labourers on,216;Indians of the,216;Sir Roger Casement on,288Putumayo Rubber Company,12QUEBRADA, San Miguel,102Quichua language,56Quinine,93-4RAPE,28Read, H. M., Director of the Peruvian Amazon Company,210Remolino,141-2Rengifo, Miguel, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,261Reyes, President,68,93-4Robuchon, French explorer, disappears,218-19,289Rocca, action by,228Rodriguez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,242-3;wholesale murders by,254-5,262,276,310Rodriguez Bros., agents of the Peruvian Amazon Company,217,223Rodriguez, Dr.,248Roman Church in Peru,52Rosas, J., witness,243Rubber, cost of, in human lives,46-7;output of,47;varieties of, and method of gathering,94-5,294-5Rubber companies, fraudulent,48SANCHEZ, DONALFONSO,146-7Sanchez, Ramon, rubber agent,274-5,279San Antonio,55San Francisco,55,62-3Santa Julia,153,260Santiago,55; Indians of,56-60Savagery, tales of Indian,36Sealey, Stanley, witness,324“Secret of the Pacific, The,”20Serrano, Señor,166-8;atrocious treatment by the Peruvians,148-9,164-6,201Shareholders, ignorance of,48Sibundoy,55;Indians of,61Skulls, at Matanzas,253Slave raids,14Slave trade, in Peru,21,51,209,297Smallpox sufferers killed,241,243Spears,158Soplín, Carlos, witness,232Sorcery, belief in,71Sousa, Deiro, Baron de, Director of Peruvian Amazon Company,210,241State Socialism of Incas,11Starvation,304-5,310Stench of murdered Indians,234,252,332Stocks, Indians starved in,241,279,280-1;flogged in,308Suárez, executioner,230Sugar, phenomenal growth of,36Sunday Times, statements in, denied,211-12TAMBOPATA,23Tapirs,114,117-18Target, Indians as living,38,206Telegraphy, native,16,158-9Texeira, explorer,14Tizon, Señor,303,307Torres, Colombian prisoner,226Torres, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,323Torture, as a diversion,38;varieties of, in use,184-5,204-7, 213 to end.SeeBurning, Flogging, Stocks, Target, Water, &c.Toucan,123-4Truth,30-31,44,185,204,330-31Turkey,127Turtles,115-16,119;eggs,124,127Tunday,seeTelegraphTyranny, a matter of opportunity,39UNITEDSTATES,28,42-3;action of, tardily follows British,46;apathy of Consul and Government,195Urdaneta, General,67VAMPIRES,98-9Vasquez, A., agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,262-3,317-21Vasquez, Julian, witness,243,317-8Vegetation,93Velarde, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,223-4,309Venezuela,13Victims, names of some,221Virginia, Brazilian launch,225WATER, torture by,205,307Whiffen, Captain,324,330Witchcraft, belief in,71Women, trade in,21;treatment of,180-81,184-5,198,206,218,220,226-7,229,230-35,242,247-8,253,261-2,283-4,306,311,313-14,316ZAPATA, Prefect,197Zubiaur, Carlos,187,192Zumaeta, Bartolomé, agent of the Peruvian Amazon Company,200,211,226-7,246Zumaeta, Pablo, managing director of the Peruvian Amazon Company released,332-3


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