INDEX

Acré territory
Acuna (Jesuit Priest)
Africa:
British explorers in
European colonization in
rubber from
Agassiz, Elizabeth
Agassiz, Louis
agouti
aguardiente
Agumaita, Brazil, hevea trees of
Akron, Ohio, rubber manufacturing in
aldeira
Alexander, Steven
Allen, Arthur Watts
Allen family
alligators
alpacas
Amazonas, SS
Amazon Basin:
as biological resource
dangers of
deforestation in
fertility of
geographical range of
population levels in
rain forest coverage of; see also tropical forests
recent climate changes in
resource extraction cycles in
rubber production in, see Brazilian rubber trade
soil fragility of
Amazon River:
drainage area of
flow rate of
Indian name for
length of
Orinoco system linked to
steam navigation on
tributaries of
Amazon Steam Navigation Company
anacondas
Anderson Warehouses
Anis (Yucatán governor)
Antarctica, British exploratory voyage to
antipodes
Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society
ants
Arana, Julio Cesar
Archer, T. W.
arghan (Bromelia magdalemae) (Colombia pita fiber) (silk grass)
Argyll, George John Douglas Campbell, Duke of
Arigua
army caterpillars
Arthur
assembly lines
Atures, Venezuela
Aublet, Jean Baptiste Fusée
Australia, see Queensland, Australia
automobile industry
Aveiro, Brazil
aviadors
Ayrton, Acton Smee
Aztecs
Azulay family

balatá
balde
Balfour, J. H.
balsam
banana plantations
Banham, G. S.
Banks, Joseph
Barbados, escaped slaves from
barracão
basketry
Bates, Henry Walter
on fire ants
on piquiá trees
on piranha
in Santarém area
bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber)
beer, rubber added to
bejucas
Belém, Brazil, see Pará (Belém), Brazil (city)
Belgium, Congo rubber production controlled by
Belize City, British Honduras -47n
Belize Estate and Produce Company
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bellamy, J.
Belt, Thomas
Belterra
Benacio (Venezuelan worker)
Bentley, Holman
Benz, Carl
Berbice
Bernhardt, Sarah
B. F. Goodrich Company
bicycles
Bierce, Ambrose
biopiracy:
of cinchona
current Brazilian fears of
ethics of
international law on
moralistic justification of
of rubber -43n
Birch, Samuel
birds, tropical:
Crystal Palace exhibition of
plumage collected from
see also specific tropical birds
blackbirders
blackflies
Boa Vista, Brazil
Fordlandia replacement of
Boer War
Boim, Brazil
hevea from highlands behind
Jesuit history of
location of
river traffic at
rubber trade in
Sephardic Jewish traders of
Bolívar, Simon
Bolivia
rubber from
Bonpland, Aimé
boobies
Borbon, Venezuela, confederado settlement at
Borneo, rubber grown in
borracha
botany:
economic
professional status in
botflies
Braga, Eduardo
Brazil:
British economic influence in
coffee biopiracy of
current biopiracy fears in
customs regulations of
independence of
international slights felt by
Jewish merchants in
land ownership in
navy of
North-American plantation projects in
political stability of
Portuguese presence in
slavery in
soy cultivation in
state rivalries within
territorial boundaries of
Brazilian rubber trade:
best source areas of
biopiracy efforts and ; see also biopiracy, of rubber
Boom periods in
British plantation production vs.
credit overextended to
decline of
economic benefits from
export levels of
labor oppression in
Manaus as center of
plantations in
as principal source of raw rubber
professional hierarchy within
sugarcane in
Brazil (Pará) nuts
Brazil nut tree, (castanheira)
brazilwood
British Empire, see Great Britain
British Guiana
British Honduras
capital city of
farming stifled in
logging industry of
progressive governor vs. plantocracy of
settlement of
sunken treasure sought near
territory of
Victoria peak in
Yucatán Maya conflict with
British Honduras Company
British Rubber Growers’ Association
Bromelia magdalemae (arghan)
(Colombia pita fiber) (silk grass)
Bruce, Sir Charles
Buckup, Paulo
Bull, William
Burma, rubber cultivation in
Burton, Sir Richard
buzzards

Cabanas, War of
cablanos
cable cars
caboclos
cacau
cachaca
Cadman, Joseph
calabash (tutuma)
California, wagon trains to
campos
candiru (toothpick fish)
cannibalism
caoutchouc
capitalism
Caraval, Gaspar de
Cargill, Inc.
Carib tribe
Caripune Indians
Carnegie, Andrew
Carpodinus
Carter, Patty
Carter, William H. J.
Caruso, Enrico
Caryocar villosum
cascarilla roja
Casement, Roger
Casiquiare canal
cassava
castanheira (Brazil nut tree)
Caste War, of Yucatán Peninsula
Castilla elastica (Panama rubber tree)
Castilloa elastica (Ule)
Castries, St. Lucia
Castro (governor of Amazonas)
catfish
cattle ranches
caucho
caudillos
Caura River
Cayce, Edgar
Cayla.
cayman
Ceará rubber plants (Manihot glaziovii)
cenate
centipedes
Ceylon (Sri Lanka):
coffee blight in
gutta-percha from
Hevea seedlings brought to
rubber plantations of
Chalmers, James
Chanel No.
Channel Cable
Chan Santa Cruz
Chapman, William
Charles I, King of Great Britain
Chávez, Ricardo
chibéh
chiggers
cholera
Chontales Mining Company
Christianity
British imperial mission and
Jesuit priests and
Church, George
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
cidade
cinchona
biopiracy of
Dutch cultivation of
name of
yellow-bark variety of
ciringal (seringal)
Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Civil War, U.S.:
Latin-American settlements of refugees from, see confederados
rubber utilized in
clipper ships
Clitandra
cockatoo farmers
Cockscomb (Corkscrew) mountains
cocoa
coconut plantation
Cocos islands
coffee
Cohen, Elisio Eden
Cohen, Herica Maria
Cohen family
Collins, James
Colombia, rubber from
Colombian exchange
Colombia pita fiber (arghan) (Bromelia magdalemae) (silk grass)
Colón, Panama
Columbus, Christopher
Commerce, U.S. Department of
confederados
financial successes of
near Santarém
slave system backed by
in Venezuela
Conflict Islands
Congo Free State
Conrad, Joseph
consuls, British
Continental Kautschuk und Gutta Percha Co.
Coolidge, Calvin
coolie labor
copra
coral reefs
Cordingly, David
Corkscrew (Cockscomb) Mountains
Cortés, Hernando
cow-tree (Maceranduba)
Cramer and Company
Creoles
Cross, Robert
in cinchona theft effort
hevea collected by
Cross, William
Cruzob
Crystal Palace
cucurito palm
Cumane (Venezuelan Indian)
Cupari River
curiaras
Curuá rivers
curupira
cyanide

Daimler, Gottfried
Darwin, Annie
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Emma
Davis, Edgar Byrum
Dean, Warren
debt-peonage system
Defoe, Daniel
deforestation
defumador
Della Costa, Antonio
Dempsey, Mary
D’Entrecasteaux Group
Dermatobia hominis
de Sousa Pessoa, Biamor
Detroit, Mich., auto industry of
de Vilanova, Francisco
devil’s fishhook ( juruparipindi)
Diamantino Rubber Co.
Dickens, Charles
dimethyl butadiene
Dipteryx odorata (sarrapia tree)
Dobson, William Charles Thomas
Donner Party
Dothidella ulei
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Drummond-Hay, Edward
Drummond-Hay, James de Vismes
Drummond-Hay, John
Duke of Devonshire
Dunlop tires
Dusendchon, Zargas & Co.
dyewoods
Earth Summit (1992)
East India Company
Ecuador:
cinchona seeds stolen from
rubber from
Edison, Thomas A.
eels, electric
El Dorado, mythology of
electrical systems
Electrophorous electricus (temblador)
Eli Lilly
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Emigrant’s Guide to Brazil, The (Hastings)
Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California, The (Hastings)
engenhos
Enlightenment
Ensor, Robert C. K.
Ercarnación, Sor
Erebus, HMS
Escondido River
Esperanza
estrada
exploration

faca
Falkland Islands
farinha de mandioca (manioc flour)
Farris, Charles
Federated Malay States see also Malaya
feiticeira
fer-de-lance ( jararaca)
Ferrell, Mercia Jane
Ficus elastica
fire ants ( formigas de fogo)
Firestone, Harvey
Flint, Charles R.
flowers, cult status of
Forbes, Henry O.
Ford, Henry
Amazonian agro-industrial utopia planned by
automobile production of
distant paternalism of
manufacturing innovations of
Fordlandia
failure of
location of
North-American management of
rubber plantation at
ruins of
size of
worker dissatisfactions at
Ford Motor Company
formigas de fogo (fire ants)
Fortune, Robert
Fourcroy, Antoine François de
Franco, Old Man
Franco-Prussian War
free trade
Freud, Sigmund
Funtumia elastica

gaiola
Gardiner, John
Gardrich. L.
gas masks
Gates, Bill
Gauguin, Paul
gaurapo
G. B. Pirelli and Co.
Geer, William C.
General Sherman (giant sequoia tree)
George II Frederic, King of Miskito Nation
George IV, King of Great Britain
George Frederic Augustus I, King of Miskito Nation
German colonies
Germany, synthetic rubber production in
Geronimo
gibberellic acid
Gibbon, Lardner
Gil, Rojas
Gmelina arborea
Goacribari
gold, mythical city of, see El Dorado, mythology of
goldenrod
gold mining
Goldsworthy, Sir Roger Tuckfield -48n
goma
Gonçalves Ribeiro, Eduardo
Goodyear, Charles
Gordon, Charles George
Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Lord
Great Britain:
antipodal points of
biopiracy efforts of, see biopiracy
Brazilian economic influence of
colonial plantation economy of
consulships of
corporate interests served by
East-Asian rubber plantations of
imperial mission of
international resentment toward
labor problems of
rubber monopoly gained by
Victorian-era exploration from
Great Exhibition (1851)
Green, Thomas Shipton
Greenwood, James
Greytown, Nicaragua
Guaharibos
Guarani
Guatemala, British Honduran tensions with
guayule
Gum-Elastic (Goodyear)
gutta-percha
Guyana, rubber plantations wiped out in

Half-Moon Cay
Hammick (Wickham’s tobacco-farm partner)
Hampstead Heath
Hancock, Thomas
Hardenburg, Walter E.
Harding, Warren
Harris, John H.
Hasskarl, Justus Charles
Hastings, Lansford Warren
Haverstock Hill
hawksbill turtles
HCN (hydrocyanic acid) (prussic acid)
heat exhaustion
Heneratgoda Gardens
Heracleitus
Herbert River
Hernandez (white Creole)
Hernández, Crisóstavo
Herndon, William Lewis
Hevea brasiliensis (Pará rubber tree)
Hevea brasiliensis (cont.)
biopiracy of -43n
Cross’s delivery of
curing process for
East Asian cultivation of
fungal parasites of
germination process of
identification process for
Kew cultivation of
mother tree of
natural growth patterns of
optimal conditions for
Pará fine derived from
seed explosions of
superiority of rubber from
tapping processes for
tree size of
types of
Wickham’s drawings of
see also Brazilian rubber trade
Hill, Captain
Himalayas, British trekkers in
Hitler, Adolf
Hogg, Sir James
Hondo River
Hooker, Francis Harriet
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
background of
in bureaucratic conflicts
hevea seeds delivered to
as Kew’s director
prickly personality of
in rubber biopiracy efforts
Wickham distasteful to
Hooker, William Jackson
hookworm
Hoover, Herbert
hornets
Huitoto Indians
Humboldt, Alexander von
hydrocyanic (prussic) acid (HCN)

ice ages
Iferenanuique (Huitoto chief)
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
iguanas
imbibation
Immigration Act (1872)
Incas
India:
cinchona cultivation in
rubber cultivation in
Sepoy Mutiny in
Indian black earth (terra de Indio)
India Office:
in cinchona biopiracy effort
East Asian rubber cultivation and
Kew collaboration with
management style of -41n
rubber biopiracy and
India rubber
Ingham, W. B.
Inman Lines
insecticides
internal combustion engine
ipe (ironwood tree)
Iquitos, Peru
Irai Company
Iraq, U.S. invasion of
Ireland, potato famine in
ironclad ships
Isonandra tree
Itamarina

jaguars
James I, King of Great Britain
Jameson (Wickham’s business colleague)
James Stafford
Japan, Asian rubber plantations seized by
jararaca (fer-de-lance)
Javari River
Jennings, Clements
Jesuits
João VI, King of Portugal
Johnson, Frederick A.
Jones, Fordyce
juruparipindi (devil’s fishhook)

Kanakas (Melanesian workers)
Kanchenjunga
Kickxia
Kidd, Benjamin
King, Moll
Kingdom & Co.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirkwood, Deborah
Kondakov, Ivan
Krakatoa, volcanic eruption of

Labroz, O.
la Condamine, Charles Marie de
lactifers
Laird, MacGregor
Lake LaFarge
Lake Ormoc
lanchas
Landolphia (white rubber vine) (mbungu vine)
Lane, Edward Valentine
Lange, Algot
LaRue, Carl
latex
see also rubber
Latin America:
Confederate refugees in, see confederados
informal British presence in
Lawrence, T. E.
leaf blight
leaf-cutter ants
Lectures on Colonization and Colonies (Merivale)
Ledger, Charles
Lendrum, Alexander
Lendrum, Frances Livingstone
Leopold II, King of Belgium
leprosy
Level, Andreas
lianas
Liberia, rubber cultivation in
lighting systems, electric
linamarin
Lingoa Geral
Liverpool & Amazon Royal Mail Steamship Company
Livingstone, David
Livingstone, Thomas Gott
lizards
llanos
Loadman, John
logging
London, England:
disease epidemics in
growth of
Marylebone district of
poverty in
suburbs of
London, Jack
London Stock Exchange
Louisiade Archipelago, Conflict Islands in
Lovejoy, Thomas
Ludwig, Daniel K.
Lumholtz, Carl
Lynch, R. Irwin -40n

MacCreagh, Gordon
Maceranduba (cow-tree)
Macgregor, Sir William
Macintosh, Charles
Madagascar, rosy periwinkle of
Madeira-Mamoré Railway Company
Madeira River
mahogany (Swietenia mahogani)
Mai d’agua
maki
malaria
Malaya:
rubber plantations in
Wickham’s plantation projects in
Mallet, Louis
Maloney, Sir C. Alfred
Managua, Treaty of (1860)
Manaus, Brazil
decline of
floating dock built in
prosperity of
as rubber trade center -58n
Manifest Destiny
Manihot glaziovii (Ceará rubber plants)
Manilkara bidentata
manioc flour (farinha de mandioca)
Mann, Gustav
Manuel (Venezuelan worker)
mapiri
marginal environments
Maria I, Queen of Portugal
Markham, Clements R.
career of-41n
in cinchona theft
physical appearance of
rubber biopiracy backed by
Wickham’s India appointment urged by
marriage, Victorian view of
Marx, Karl
mass production
matapalo (strangler fig)
Mateo (Venezuelan worker)
Maurey, Matthew Fontaine
Maya
Mayhew, Henry
mbungu vine (Landolphia) (white rubber vine)
Melanesian workers (Kanakas)
Melo Palheta, Francisco de
Mendenhall, J. B.
Merivale, Herman
Merrie England
Merrimac
mestizos
Mexico:
1914 revolution in
rubber from
War of Independence of
Yucatán Peninsula of
Michelin tires
Miller, William
millinery business
mimosa frigosa
mishla
Miskito Indians
missionaries
Jesuit
Miyata, Kenneth
Model Ts
Monitor
monkeys
Montanha
Monte Alegre
Monte Durado, Brazil
Montefiore, Abraham
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico
Moog, Vianna
Morani, Emilio
Moravians
Morley, George
Morocco:
Brazilian immigrants from
British diplomacy with
Mosquito Coast
mosquitoes
diseases transmitted by
mosses
mother-of-pearl
Mother Saidy (Barbados woman in Venezuela)
Mother Tree, mythology of
Mount Chimborazo
Mundurucú Indians
Munt, J. G.
Murphy, John
Murray, George

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
Narciso (Venezuelan worker)
natural theology
Nelson, Lord Horatio
New Guinea, see Papua New Guinea
Nicaragua
British presence in
cholera epidemic in
Mosquito Coast of
rubber harvesting in
Santo Domingo country in
tribal peoples of
Nicuesa, Diego de
nitrate pulse
Niven, Robert

oil industry
Oldman, King of the Miskito Nation
Olds, Ransom E.
“On India-Rubber” (Collins)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
On the Plantation, Cultivation, and Curing of Pará Indian Rubber
(Wickham)
opium
Orellana, Francisco de
Orinoco River
Amazon system linked to
rubber collection near
upriver journey on
Otto, Nikolaus
Owen, Richard

Pacific Ocean:
clipper ship crossing of
guano islands of
palmatore
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Lord
palm oil
palm trees
Panama rubber tree (Castilla elastica)
Panasea
P&O Company
Papua New Guinea
archipelagoes near
Papua New Guinea (cont.)
British annexation of
colonial expatriate society in
land use restrictions of
native culture of
rubber cultivation in
topography of
Pará (Belém), Brazil (city)
British consuls in
Jewish merchants in
location of
Wickham’s hevea seeds smuggled through
Pará, Brazil (province)
Pará fine
Paranáquausú
see also Amazon River
Pará (Brazil) nuts
Paraponera clavata
Pará rubber tree, see Hevea brasiliensis
parrots
patrãos
Pavlova, Anna
Pax Britannica
Paxton, Joseph
Peal, Samuel
pearl oysters, cultivation of
Peck, John Benjamin
Pedley, Anna
Pedley, James
Pedro I, Dom, Emperor of Brazil
Pedro II, Dom, Emperor of Brazil
Pereira Branco, Olinda
Perideniya Gardens
periwinkle, biopiracy of
perros de agua (river otters)
Peru:
cinchona seeds stolen from
rubber production in
Peru Pará Rubber Company
Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company
Philippines, rubber plantations in
Pilditch, Alice Molson Symon
Pilditch, Frank Slater
Pilditch, Harriette Jane Wickham
Pinto, Abraham
Pinto Guimarães, Miguel Antônio
piquiá trees
Piquiá-tuba, Brazil
piranha
Pirelli tires
pitpan canoes
Pizarro, Francisco
Pizarro, Gonzalo
“Planter of Malata, The” (Conrad)
Planters’ Association of Ceylon and Malaya
plant species, geographical transfer of
see also biopiracy
plenopid snails
plimsolls
pneumatic rubber tires
Porter, Bernard
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
posseiros
Potamotrygon stingray
praça
Prado, Paulo
Prain, David
Prayer of the Dry Toad
Price, Henry M.
Price Grant
Priestley, Joseph
Pritchett, G. J.
prussic (hydrocyanic) acid (HCN)
purple ipe
Putumayo region, rubber barons of
Queensland, Australia
British emigration to
climate of
Melanesian labor force in
racial violence in
quinine

railroads
in Brazil
rubber usage on
rain forest, see tropical forests
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ramón (Wickham’s canoe pilot)
ranchos
rede
Reja, Carmen
Reliance Rubber Company
Reserva Florestal Adolfo Duche
resource independence
Rhome, Romulus J.
rias
Ridley, Henry N.
Riker, David Afton (son)
Riker, David Bowman (father)
background of
estate built by
financial success of
Ford plantation and
on Wickham
Riker, Ditmar
Riker, R. H.
Riker, Robert
Riker, Rubim
Rio Negro
Rios, Rafael
river blindness
river otters (perros de agua)
Rogers (Wickham’s Orinoco
companion)
Roman (Jesuit priest in Venezuela)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
rosewood
Ross, Sir John Clark
rosy periwinkle, biopiracy of
Rough Notes of a Journey through the Wilderness from Trinidad to Pará, Brazil (Wickham)
Rousseau, Henri
Royal Botanic Gardens, in Calcutta
Royal Botanic Gardens-Kew:
cinchona seeds stolen for
directors of
economic botany mission of
Far Eastern rubber stock sent from
India Office collaboration of
plant collections of
public access to
rubber cultivation at
staff of
as state institution
Wickham’s relations with, with
Wickham’s seeds brought to
Royal Colonial Club
Royal Geographical Society
rubber:
annual supplies of
in Brazil, see Brazilian rubber trade
commercial uses of
curing of
harvesting of
initial European exposure to
rubber (cont.)
labor abuses in collection of
military uses of
names of
prices of
purity of
speculative investments in
synthetic
types of ; see also specific rubber-plant species
U.S. as largest consumer of
vulcanization of
worldwide production levels of
Rubber Age
Rubber Booms

Sachs. F.
Sackville, Sir Lionel
Saldaña Rocca, Benjamín
Salisbury, Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord
Sanción, La
sand flies (zancudos)
San Fernando de Atabapo, Venezuela
Santana
Santarém, Brazil
Amazon-Tapajós juncture at
confederado settlements near
English school in
hevea seeds smuggled through
Jesuit mission in
racial history of
soybean cultivation near
Santos, Roberto
São Paulo Railway Company
Sapium
sarrapia tree (Dipteryx odorata)
sarsaparilla
Saturday of Glory
saudade
sauva ants
schistomiasis
Scholz, Waldeman
Schroeder Lessa, Luis Gonzaga
Schurz, William
science:
British public spending on
economic benefits of
as male domain
Scully, William
sea cucumber (bêche-de-mer)
Sephardic Jews
Sepoy Mutiny (1857)
sequoia trees
seringa (syringe rubber)
seringal (ciringal)
seringueiros
Serique, Julio David
Serique family
Serra de Humayta
sharks
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Siccama Plan (1880)
silk grass (arghan) (Bromelia magdalemae) (Colombia pita fiber)
silk moths
Silva Coutinho, João Martins da
Sinclair, Upton
Singapore, hevea cultivation in
siphonia
Sisimitos
Sitio de Taperhina
slavery
smallpox
Smith, Herbert H.
snakes
snowy egrets
Society for the Protection of Birds
Solomon Islands
Somme, First Battle of (1916)
soybean cultivation
Spanish Conquest
Speke, John Hanning
sponges, farming of
Spruce, Richard
on Amazon Forest
background of
on Brazilian rubber trade
in cinchona theft effort
on Guaharibos tribe
Pará fine source sought by
on rubber collection
in Santarém area
Sri Lanka, see Ceylon
Starley, John Kemp
steam navigation
Stevenson Rubber Restriction Plan
stingray, Potamotrygon
Stonequist, Everett
Storach, W. M.
Straits Settlements
strangler fig (matapalo)
streetcars, electric
Stroop, Allie
subways
sucuruju (anaconda)
sugarcane plantations
in Australia
in Brazil
Surinam, rubber industry wiped out in
Swayne, Sir Eric
Swietenia mahogani (mahogany)
syringe rubber (seringa)

Talking Cross -50n
Tamils
Tapajós (Tupaya) Indians
Tapajós Pará Rubber Forests Ltd.
Tapajós River
Taparitos
Taperhina
teak
tea plantations
Tears of the Tree (Loadman)
Teatro Amazonas
Teatro do Paz
telegraph wires, rubber insulation of
telephone service
Temash River
temblador (Electrophorous electricus) (electric eel)
Temple, Hercules
termites
terra firme
terra preta do Indio (Indian black earth)
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner
Thomson, Thomas
Thwaites, H. K.
timbó
tin mines
ti-ti monkeys
tires, rubber
tobacco cultivation
toldo
tonina
tonka beans
toothpick fish (candiru)
Torquemada, Juan de
toucans
tradeguns
transatlantic cables
Transcontinental Express
tree frogs
trees:
maximum sizes of
in sacred mythology
see also specific tree species
Trinidad
tropical forests:
clear-cutting of
dangers and discomforts in
ecological functions of
fertility of
insect life of
native mythologies of
rainy season in
sounds of
species diversity of
strangler fig of
transcendent states induced in
tree-growth patterns of
vines of
see also Amazon Basin
Truth
tuberculosis
Tucker, Quincy
tulips
Tulum, Talking Cross in
Tupaya (Tapajós) Indians
Tupi Guarani
turkey buzzards
Turneffe
turtles
tutuma (calabash)
Tzantzen

Uapés River
ubá canoes
Ule (Castilloa elastica)
ultraviolet rays
United North and South Oil Company
United States Rubber Company
uti possidetis
uruba-tinga

vampire bats
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Van Roosmiler, Marc
Vaughan, James
Venezuela
civil warfare in
confederado refugee group in
gold mining in
governors of
northern llanos vs. southern forests of
rubber collection in
tribal peoples of
Ventura (lancha pilot)
Victoria, Queen of England
Victoria amazonia
Victorian era
Victoria Peak
Villares, Jorge
vincristine
vulcanization
vultures

Walker, William
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wardian greenhouses
Watkins (Wickham’s confederado travel companion)
Weir, John
Wetherall, Lucille
white rubber (mbungu) vine (Landolphia)
White Women’s Protection Ordinance (1926)
Wickham, Christine Francis Pedley
Wickham, Harriette Jane, see Pilditch, Harriette Jane Wickham
Wickham, Harriette Johnson
in Brazil
millinery business of
Wickham, Harry
Wickham, Henry (father)
Wickham, Henry Alexander (son)
biographer of
biological piracy of
in Brazil
in British Honduras
childhood of
in Conflict Islands
death of
family background of
family members taken to Brazil with
finances of
health problems of
Hevea brasiliensis drawings of
homes built by
Honduran government employment of
India/Ceylon posting sought by
Kew relations with
knighthood bestowed on
later years of
marriage of
Mayan negotiations with
mountain-climbing experience of
native lifestyle adopted by
in Nicaragua
on optimal growth conditions for hevea
in Papua New Guinea
personality of
Wickham, Henry Alexander (son) (cont.)
physical appearance of
plantations of
public acknowledgment of achievement of -42n
in Queensland
rubber-tapping work of
self-promotion efforts of
solitude and loneliness of
on tribal peoples
in Venezuela
writings of
Wickham, John Joseph Edward
Wickham, Joseph
Wickham, Sophie Phillips
Wickham, Violet Case Carter:
background of
in British Honduras
in Conflict Islands
death of
health problems of
marriage of
memoirs of
on native peoples
personality of
physical appearance of
in Queensland
on rubber biopiracy
servants of
in successive farm efforts
travels described by
on Wickham’s career
wilderness housekeeping of
on wildlife
Wilken, W. A.
William Henry Clarence, King of the Miskito Nation
William of Wykeham
Wilson, E. O.
Wolfe, Thomas
Woolwà
World War I,
World War II,
Wycherley, P. R.

xeros
Xtabay

Yanomami tribe
Yberra Ortol, Filipe
yellow fever
Yucatán Peninsula
British Honduran border with
violence on

zamora
zancudos (sand flies)
Zebu cattle