BOLIVAR, Ciudad

[s. 116] : Capital of the State of Bolivar, in Venezuela, situated on the Orinoco. Population (1891), 11,686. Station of the South America Evangelical Mi ion, with 1 mi ionary. Also station of the Venezuela Mi ion, with 1 mi ionary and his wife. BOLIVIA, Republic of One of the South American republics, lying just north of Chile and the Argentine Republic. Its constitution was adopt By the treaty of peace ed August 2.5, 1836. with Chile, in 1880, all the coast territory was lost, and there are now eight provinces, with a Including total area of 567,431 square miles. population numbers Indians, the 1,000,000 2,300,000, of whom 500,000 are Mestizoes, or half-breeds, and 500,000 whites. La Paz, the capital, has about 65,000 inhabitants. EducaThe nominal religion is tion is at a low ebb. Roman Catholic, but the ma of the Indians It is the least developed of the are pagans.: South American republics. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec has established mi ion stations at Oruro and La Paz (1899), and the Plymouth Brethren have a station at Sucre. A village in the Nadiya disBengal, India; station of the CMS (1849), with 2 mi ionaries, one with his wife, 24 native workers, men and women, 1 chapel, 3 village schools and 130 communicants. 116