The Thief at the End of the World
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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
Wi
ckham’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