dried and put into bags, and are then ready to be sent to various parts of the world.
For Recitation.—What are the Selvas? What are the Llanos and Pampas? Name some of the most useful products that come from the forests of South America. Name the chief cultivated products of South America.
MAP STUDIES.
Of what countries are the following cities the Capitals? * Rio de Janeiro (ree'-o de zha-na'-ro), * Georgetown, * Paramaribo, * Cayenne (kay-en'), * Caracas (kah-rah'-kas), * Bogota', * Quito (kee'-to), * Lima {lee'-mah), * Sucré (soo-kray'), * Santiago (san-te-ah'-go), * Buenos Aires (bo'-nus a'-riz), * Asuncion (a-soon-se-on'), * Mon-te-vid'-e-o.
What bounds South America on the east? On the west? On the north? What heavy line crosses the map of South America? What kind of climate has the northern part of the continent? In what zone is the southern part? What kind of climate has the southern part?
How are North and South America connected? What chain of mountains along the west coast of South America? In what direction and how far do they extend? On which side of the Andes are all the long rivers?
What countries are crossed by the Andes? What countries border on the Caribbean sea? On the Atlantic ocean? On the Pacific?
Traveling on the pampas in Argentina.
What country borders on the Pacific ocean and the Caribbean sea? What river flows in a northerly direction through Colombia? Where is Venezuela {ven-e-zwee'-lah)? What river crosses it? What lake in the northern part? What island near the mouth of the Orinoco? What country east of Venezuela?
What country south of Colombia? What are the countries that border on Ecuador (ek-wah-dor')? Ecuador is a Spanish word for equator, and the country is so named because the equator crosses it. What city on the equator? What volcanoes do you find in Ecuador?
Which is the largest country of South America? What are the only countries of South America that do not touch Brazil?
What part of Brazil is crossed by the equator? In what zone is most of Brazil?
What is the great river of Brazil? Name its largest tributary. What capes on the coast? Where is the diamond district?
Where is Cuzco (koos'ko)? What great river rises in Peru? What lake between Bolivia and Peru?
Getting ox teams ready for work on a plantation.
What country southeast of Peru? Where is Potosi? Sucre? What country lies wholly west of the Andes?
Name its chief seaport. In what zone is the greater part of Chile? What islands west of Chile?
What country east of Chile? What countries border Argentina (ar'-gen-tee'-na)? Locate Mt. Aconcagua.
What is the southern portion of Argentina called? What cape is the southernmost point?
Where is Tierra del Fuego (te-er'-rah del fway'-go)? What form of land is it? What strait separates it from Patagonia? The strait was named after Magellan, whose ship was the first that sailed round the world.
Of what river is the Paraguay a tributary? Into what does the Parana flow? Where is Uruguay (oo'-roo-gway)?
What three rivers separate Paraguay from Argentina? Which are the two smallest countries of South America? In what direction would you sail from Valparaiso to Panama? From Rio de Janeiro to the mouth of the Amazon? On what waters would you sail in going from Rio de Janeiro to Valparaiso?
How might you go all the way by water from Maracaibo to Guayaquil? By what shorter way could you go? Use the scale and tell about how many miles would be saved.
