Symbolical writing, i. 107.

T
Tabascans, i. 343-348.
Conversion of, 357.
Tabasco, Rio de, i. 293, 342, iv. 179.
Tabasco, town of, i. 344, 348.
Table, ceremonies at, i. 168.
Table-land, i. 8, ii. 88.
Tables, hieroglyphical, i. 131, note.
Tactics, Aztec military, i. 59.
Tacuba. See Tlacopan.
Tamanes. See Porters.
Tamerlane’s skulls, ii. 330, note.
Tangapan, lord of Michoacán, iii. 296, note.
Tapia, Andrés de, i. 353, note, ii. 205, note, 306, note, 329, note, 347, note, iii. 17, note, 335, iv. 38, 46, 48, 62.
Tapia, Christóval de, commissioner to Vera Cruz, iii. 355, iv. 140.
Bought off, iv. 141.
In Castile, 143.
Brings charges against Cortés, 143.
Tarentum, vessels at, iii. 24, note.
Tasco, mines of, i. 153, iv. 153.
Tatius, Achilles, i. 248, note.
Taxes. See Revenues and Tribute.
Tax-gatherers, i. 54, ii. 44.
Collect tribute for the Spanish sovereign, iii. 6.
Tecocol, cacique of Tezcuco, iii. 268, 269, note.
Tecpan, ii. 191, note.
Tectetan, meaning of, i. 290.
Tecuhtli, i. 33, note.
Tecuichpo, daughter of Montezuma and wife of Guatemozin, iii. 155, note, 249, iv. 104, 186, note.
Her several husbands, iii. 155, note, iv. 186, note.
Cortés’ reception of, iv. 104.
Grant to, 318.
Teeth, Aztec custom as to, i. 168, note.
Tehuantepec, iv. 231, 232.
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex, i. 95, note, 120, note.
Tellier, Archbishop, i. 120, note.
Temixtitan, a corruption of Tenochtitlan, i. 21.
Tempest after the surrender, iv. 106.
Temples, or teocallis, to Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Mars, i. 70.
Account of, 84-87, note.
On the teachings of Egyptian, 106, note.
Built by Nezahualcoyotl, to the Unknown God, 208.
Toltec, dedicated to the Sun, 208.
Various, at Cholula, 234, ii. 183-185.
All destroyed, i. 257, iii. 165, and note.
Resemblances to, in the East, i. 257, 261.
At Xochicalco, 257, 261, note.
At Cozumel, 332, 337.
Rifled by Alvarado, 332.
Turret of one in Mexico burned, ii. 10, 11.
At Tlatlanquitepec, 93.
On the hill of Tzompach, 125, 162.
To Quetzalcoatl, 183, 203, 329.
Modern, on the site of Quetzalcoatl’s, 217.
In Mexico, 319-322, 328.
Occupied at Cempoalla, iii. 62.
At Popotla, 174.
On the hill of Otoncalpolco, 176.
On a pyramid of Teotihuacan, 192.
At Xochimilco, 342.
At Tacuba, 350.
Burnt by Alvarado, iv. 76.
See Huitzilopochtli, Idols, and Quetzalcoatl.
Tenajoccan, town of, iii. 307, note.
Tenochtitlan, i. 21.
Called Mexico, 21.
The word, 21, note, ii. 257, note.
Prosperity and enlargement of, i. 25.
See Mexico.
Teoamoxtli, or divine book, i. 122, note.
Teotihuacan, pyramids of, iii. 189.
Tepanecs, i. 19, 23, 177, 182.
Tepeaca, colony at, iii. 239.
Tepeacan allies, iv. 56.
Tepeacans, iii. 223.
Tepechpan, lord of, exposed to death, i. 201.
Tepejacac causeway, ii. 284, iv. 9.
Tetzmellocan, village of, iii. 259.
Teuhtlile, a provincial governor, under Montezuma, i. 364.
Orders supplies and favors, 370, ii. 16.
Teules, iii. 185.
Tezcatlipoca, the god, sacrifices to, i. 89, ii. 327.
Tezcotzinco, palaces and ruins there, i. 196, 199, 217, 257.
Tezcucans, or Acolhuans, arrival of the, in Anahuac i. 17, 177.
Their character, 18, 100.
Assaulted and beaten, 19, 23, 177.
Their institutions, 32-37.
In advance of the Mexicans, 100, 219.
The divine book of the, 122, note.
Their dialect, 123, 187.
Their fidelity to Young Nezahualcoyotl, 182.
Transfer of their power to the Aztecs, 218.
Their civilization, 219, 220.
Cause of their superiority, 219.
Oppose Cortés, iii. 195.
In Cortés’ second reconnoitring
expedition, 326.
Efficiency of, at the siege of Mexico, iv. 19.
Desertion of, 56.
See Nezahualcoyotl and Nezahualpilli.
Tezcuco, its situation, i. 10, 11, 17, 177, iii. 281.
Meaning of the word, i. 18, note, iii. 266, note.
Requirements of the chiefs of, i. 40.
Halls of justice, and pronouncing of sentences in, 46.
Golden age of, 176.
Historians, orators, and poets of, 188.
Contents of its archives, 187.
Pile of royal buildings at, 191.
Royal harem in, 192.
Architecture of, 199.
Territory of, clipped by Montezuma, 217, 366.
Description of, at the time of the Conquest, 367, note.
Reception of Cortés at, on his return to Mexico, iii. 83.
State of affairs there, 266, 269.
Brigantines brought to, 301.
Mustering of forces at, 366.
Respect to Cortés there, on his
return from Spain, iv. 229.
See Cacama, Nezahualcoyotl, and Nezahualpilli.
Tezcuco lake, its height, ii. 230, note, 282.
Conjectural limits of, 242, note.
Dike across, 247.
Towns on the, 248, and note.
Canoes there, 249, 257, iii. 305.
Ancient state of, ii. 282, iv. 155.
Tides in, ii. 282, note.
Two brigantines built there, 359.
Opened upon the Spaniards, iii. 287.
Forded, 306.
Brigantines launched on, 363.
Indian flotilla defeated there, iv. 5.
Thatch, i. 114, note, 152.
Theatrical exhibitions, i. 124.
Theogony of the Greeks, i. 67.
Thomas, the Apostle, identified with Quetzalcoatl, i. 73, note, 237, ii. 183, note.
Thread, Mexican, i. 152, ii. 311.
Tierra caliente, i. 5, 366, iii. 57.
Tierra fria, i. 8.
Tierra templada, i. 7.
Time, computation of, i. 15, 125.
Tin, i. 153.
A circulating medium, 161, ii. 318.
Titcala, ensign of the house of, ii. 121.
Tlacopan, or Tacuba, i. 23, 190, note, iii. 175.
Head-quarters at, iii. 310.
Cortés at, 350.
Command at, assigned to Alvarado, 367.
Evacuated by the inhabitants, 374.
Present state of, 374, note.
Tlacopan, or Tacuba, causeway, ii. 284.
Retreat by the way of it, iii. 158, 164.
Carnage there, 167, 311.
Tlaloc, a Toltec and Aztec deity, i. 100, note.
Tlascala, victims from, for sacrifices, i. 96.
Meaning of the word, 111, ii. 188, note.
Inimical to Montezuma and the Mexicans, i. 307, ii. 110, 113.
Cortés’ embassy to, ii. 100, 113;
his march towards, 101, 115.
Fortification at the limits of, 102, 111, iii. 205.
First settlement of, ii. 105.
Extent of, 111, note.
Its population, 121, note, 164, note.
Spaniards enter, 164.
Described, 165.
Spaniards go from, 179, 188.
Cortés’ returnto, from Cempoalla, iii. 80;
from Mexico, 207.
Fate of gold and invalids left there, 210.
Refuse an alliance with Aztecs, 222.
Brigantines built there and transported, 233, 245, 254, iii. 283, 297, 299.
Triumphal return to, iii. 244.
Departure from, against Mexico, 259.
Tlascalan allies, ii. 188, 193, 203, 205.
Release captives, 206.
Enter Mexico, 247.
Aztec hatred of, 256, 335.
Join Cortés against Narvaez, iii. 50;
on his return, 80.
Connection of, with the massacre by Alvarado, 90, note, 93.
Under Alvarado, 95, note.
Quarters of, 108.
In the retreat, 111, 162.
Guide Cortés, 185.
Their fidelity, 188.
In the battle of Otumba, 202.
Return to Tlascala, 208.
Co-operate, 224-229, 253, 302.
Imitate Spaniards, 252.
Burn records, 267.
At the sack of Iztapalapan, 285.
Convey brigantines, 299.
Their hostility to Aztecs, 300.
Booty demanded by, 315.
Noticed, 326, 335, 366.
Efficiency of, at Mexico, iv. 23, 39.
Desertion of, 56.
Their return to, 60.
See Maxixca.
Tlascalans, their early history, ii. 104.
Their institutions, 105.
Refuse tribute, and fight, 110.
Their battles with Montezuma, 111.
Battles with the, 116-125, 135-138.
Their treatment of the Cempoallan envoys, 117.
Effect of cannon and fire-arms on the, 124, 136.
Embassies to the camp of, 127, 141, 144.
Treason among the, 138.
Night attack by them, 143, 144.
Embassy from, stopped by Xicotencatl, 145, 146.
Spies from the, 154.
Reception of Spaniards by, 165.
Their character, 168, 169.
Their representations of Montezuma, 176.
Exempted from slavery, iv. 161.
Tlatelolco, i. 116, 157, note.
Movements for possessing the market-place of, iv. 35, 37, 40, 46.
Occupied by the besieged, 73, 79.
Distress there, 73.
Entered by Cortés, 79.
Modern name of, 81.
Murderous assault there, 93.
Purification of, 107.
Rebuilt, 152.
See Market.
Tlaxcallan, i. 111.
See Tlascala.
Tobacco, i. 168, 169, note, ii. 304.
Tobillos, lances and, iii. 51.
Toledo in Spain, Cortés at, iv. 218.
Tollan, or Tula, supposed original seat of the Toltecs, i. 12, note.
Etymology of the name, 13, note.
Toltecs, account of the, i. 12, 100.
Doubtful accounts of their migrations, 20, 253, 267.
Tonatiuh, iii. 172.
See Alvarado.
Tools, i. 155, 260.
Toribio de Benavente, i. 132, note, ii. 248, note, 251, note, 265, note.
Account of, and of his writings and labors, 274-276.
Cited, 297, note, 321, note, 322, note, 367, note, iii. 234.
Torquemada, i. 11, note, 15, note.
Notice of, and of his writings, 64, note.
Cited, 76, note, 81, note, 82, note, 84, note, 86, note, 91, note, 93, note, 94, note, 95, note.
Avails himself of a manuscript copy of Sahagun’s Universal History, 103.
On Mexican intercalation, 129, note.
On women, 149, note.
Cited, 156, 172, 191, note, 194, note.
On the Mexican Eve, 236, note.
His Aztec and Israelitish analogies, 242, note.
On pilgrims to Cholula, ii. 185, note.
On the baptism of Montezuma, iii. 148, note.
Torres, Juan de, teacher of Totonac converts, ii. 56.
Tortillas, iv. 32, and note.
Tortures, i. 91, iii. 345, note.
See Guatemozin.
Totonacs, ii. 25.
Their fondness for flowers, 37.
Their feelings towards Montezuma, 42.
Exactions of, by Aztec tax-gatherers, 44.
Cortes’ policy as to, 45.
Join Cortés, 46.
Effect on, of Cortés’ interview with Montezuma’s embassy, 51.
Defend their idols, 54.
Their conversion, 55.
Join Cortés’ expedition, 85, 86, note.
Trade, i. 164, ii. 312.
See Traffic.
Trades, Aztec, i. 161.
Traditions, instances of similar, in the two continents, i. 233.
Argument from, for the Asiatic origin of Aztec civilization, 251.
As authorities, 268.
See Oral traditions and Predictions.
Traffic, i. 161, ii. 108.
See Barter.
Transportation of vessels, iii. 302, note.
See Brigantines.
Transubstantiation, ii. 267, note.
Travelling, i. 110.
See Couriers.
Treasure, Axayacatl’s, discovered,
ii. 333;
disposition of it, iii. 7, 11, 160.
Found after the siege, iv. 109.
See Gold.
Trees, size and duration of, in Mexico and Central America, i. 265.
See Forests.
Trials, among the Aztecs, i. 45.
Tribes, i. 52, note.
Tribute, kinds of, i. 52, 149.
Items of, furnished by different cities, 52, note.
Roll respecting, 53, note.
Maps for the, 54.
Burdensome exactions of, prepare the way for the Spaniards, 54.
Montezuma’s exaction of, ii. 7, 44.
Tlascalans, refuse, 110.
Collected for the Castilian sovereign, iii. 6.
Trinidad de Cuba, i. 321.
Truth, punishment for violating, i. 186.
Truxillo, Cortés at, iv. 196.
Tudor, William, ii. 89, note, 90, note, iii. 190, note, 259, note.
Tula, capital of the Toltecs, i. 15.
Arrival of the Aztecs at, 20.
See Tollan.
Tula, the Lady of, i. 215.
Turkeys, i. 169, 191, note, ii. 35.
Tylor, Edward B., his account of Mexican remains, ii. 290, note.
Cited, i. 14, note, 16, note, 70, note, 77, note, ii. 228, note.
Tzin, the termination, iii. 249, note.
Tzompach, Hill of, ii. 125, 162.
Tzompanco, or Zumpango, iii. 185.

U
Ulloa, discoveries by, iv. 235.
Uxmal, i. 258-266.

V
Valley of Mexico, i. 11, ii. 187, 229, iii. 347.
Vanilla, cultivated, i. 150.
Vater, i. 234, note, 249, note, 254, note, 256, note.
Vega, Manuel de la, collection of manuscripts by, iv. 272.
Velasquez, Don Diego, i. 288.
Conqueror and governor of Cuba, 288.
Sends Cordova on an expedition, 289.
Despatches Juan de Grijalva to Yucatan, 291.
Censures Grijalva, 294.
Despatches Olid in search of Grijalva, 295.
Armament of, under Cortés, 296, 311, 313.
Difficulties of, with Cortés, 304-308.
His instructions to Cortés, 315, iv. 284.
Jealous and dissatisfied, i. 317.
Orders the seizure of Cortés, 323, 326.
Partisans of, oppose Cortés, ii. 27, 32, 150.
Tries to intercept despatches, 64.
Gets no redress, 64.
Fits out a fleet against Cortés, 65, iii. 29.
Chaplain of, in Spain, complains against Cortes’ envoys, iii. 25.
Sends to Spain an account of Cortés’ doings, 28, note.
His vexation with Cortés, 29.
Made adelantado, 29.
Intrusts his fleet to Narvaez, 30.
Interference with, of the Royal Audience of St. Domingo, 31.
Sustained by Duero, in Spain, 236.
Capture of forces sent to Vera Cruz by, 237.
Ignorant of the fate of his armament, 242.
State of things in Spain, in relation to him and Cortés, iii. 355, iv. 139, 144, 149.
Fate of, 149.
His character, 149.
See Narvaez.
Venezuela, ii. 241, note.
Venice, Mexico and, ii. 287.
Vera Cruz, New, i. 365, ii. 48, note.
Natives flock to, i. 365.
Built at San Juan de Ulua, iii. 33.
Narvaez at, 33.
Narvaez’s plans for a colony there, 34, 40.
The removal to, iv. 156.
Vera Cruz Vieja, or Antigua, ii. 48, note, iv. 156.
See Villa Rica.
Verdugo, i. 323, iii. 357.
Vessels, Aztecs aid in building, iii. 21.
See Armada.
Vestal fires. See Fires.
Veytia, i. 14, note, 26, note, 130, note, 186, note, ii. 180, note, 189, note.
Villafaña, conspiracy of, iii. 356.
Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, colonization of, ii. 30, 48, iv. 296.
Remarks on, ii. 48, note.
Arrival of a Spanish vessel at, 56.
Despatches to Spain from, 57, 62.
Garrisoned, 86.
Grado succeeds Escalante at, 358.
Sandoval commander at, 359.
Rangre commander at, iii. 79.
Reinforcements from, cut off, 210.
Messenger to, 211.
Troops ordered from, 212.
Desire to return to, 213.
Departure from, for Cuba, 236.
Capture of troops sent to, by Velasquez, 237.
Ships at, 237, 238, 323, iv. 62.
Harbor of, iv. 156.
See Sandoval and Vera Cruz.
Virgin Mary, i. 71, note.
Appears in battle, ii. 340, iii. 145, 203, note.
Image of, iii. 16, 132, note, 184.
Interposition of, in 1833, 184, note.
Volante, escape of, iii. 311.
Volcanoes, remains of, i. 7.
The Orizaba, ii. 34, 89, 187.
The Cofre de Perote, ii. 91.
Popocatepetl, 187, 223, 224.
Use of the word, 224, note.
Region of, iii. 332.
Voltaire, i. 99, note, iii. 147, note.
Anecdote by, of Charles V. and Cortés, iv. 240, note.
Vómito, or bilious fever, i. 7, 366, note, ii. 48, note, 88.

W
Waldeck, i. 258, 259, note, 265, note, 290, note, iii. 224.
Wall of serpents, ii. 320, iii. 87, iv. 14.
War, Aztec ideas respecting, i. 56.
Mode of declaring and conducting, 56, 57.
Great object of, 95.
Tlascalan love of, ii. 107.
Cholulans disqualified for, 182.
Warburton, William, i. 106, note, 110, note.
War-god. See Huitzilopochtli.
Warren, John C., i. 255, note.
Water, ablution with, at table, i. 168, ii. 303.
Basins of, at Tezcotzinco, i. 197, 198.
Use of, for religious purification, 241, note.
Want of, iii. 336.
See Aqueducts and Tezcuco lake.
Water-fowl, ii. 297.
Weeks, division by, i. 126.
Weights, no Mexican, ii. 318, iii. 9.
Wheat, yield of, ii. 188, note.
Wheels, chronological, i. 132, note.
Gold and silver, ii. 17, 59, note.
White, Blanco, ii. 267, note.
Wild turkeys, i. 169, 191, note, ii. 35.
Wilkinson, J. G., i. 86, 271, note.
Wives of Montezuma, ii. 299, iii. 155, iv. 302.
Women, employment and treatment of, in Mexico, i. 149, 167, 172, ii. 311.
Torquemada on, i. 149, note.
Sophocles on Egyptian men and, 149, note.
Their appearance, 167.
Asiatic, 172.
Sacrificed, 218, note.
Totonac, ii. 37.
Protected at the Cholulan massacre, 205, 212.
Dress of, 311.
Accompany the Christian camp, iii. 168.
Heroism of, iv. 58.
Heroism of the Mexican, iv. 75, 93.
Efforts to spare, 94, 99;
to bring into New Spain, 156.
See Daughters.
Wooden ware, Mexican, i. 159.
World, tradition of the destruction of the, i. 75, 140.
Wounds, want of medicaments for, iv. 32, note.

X
Xalacingo, ii. 100, note.
Xalapa, Spaniards at, ii. 88.
Xaltocan, assault on, iii. 305.
Xaramillo, Don Juan, iv. 191.
Xicotencatl, the elder, ii. 114, 165, iii. 220.
Converted, iii. 244.
Ominous words of, cited, iv. 55.
Xicotencatl, the younger, a Tlascalan commander, ii. 114, 121, 124, 128.
His standard, 132.
Facts respecting, 138, 141, 145, 146, 154, 156, 157.
Countenances jealousies, iii. 216.
Favors an embassy from Mexico, 221.
Leads against Tepeacans, 224.
Imitates Spaniards, 253.
Joins Cortés, iii. 366.
Leaves the army, 369.
Hung, 371.
Remarks on, 372.
Ximenes, Cardinal, destruction of manuscripts by, i. 116.
His administration, 279, iii. 355.
Commission by, to redress Indian grievances, i. 286, ii. 73.
Xochicalco, lake, ii. 240.
Xochicalco, ruins of the temple or fortress of, i. 257, 261, note, 263.
Xochimilco, iii. 338, 346, iv. 19.
Xoloc, Fort, ii. 249.
Stormed, iii. 348.
Fleet at, iv. 6.
Headquarters at, 7.
Barracks built there, 31.
Xuarez, Catalina, intimacy and marriage of Cortés with, i. 304, 308.
Joins her husband, iv. 158.
Fate of, 159, note, 226, and note.

Y
Years, Aztec, i. 126.
On divisions of time into, 128.
Hieroglyphics for, 129-131, note.
On the names of, 247, note.
Yucatan, mentioned, i. 258, iv. 178.
Resemblances to the architecture of, i. 261.
Expedition to, 290.
The word, 290, and note.
Called New Spain, 292.
Ordaz despatched to, to liberate Christians, 333, 339.
Canoe from, with Aguilar, 339.
See Tabasco.
Yxtacamaxtitlán, ii. 100, and note.

Z
Zacatecas, silver from, iv. 232.
Zacatula, fleet at, iv. 155, 169.
Zacotollan, copper from, i. 154.
Zahuatl, the river, ii. 167.
Zodiacal signs, coincidences as to, i. 246.
Zoltepec, massacre at, iii. 210, 298.
Zuazo, i. 87, note, 151, note.
On mantles of feathers, ii. 311, note.
On the Aztec cuisine, 316, note.
Urges Cortés to return to Mexico, iv. 200.
Zumárraga, Don Juan de, i. 94.
First archbishop of Mexico, destroys manuscripts, 115.
Image destroyed by, 197, note.
Demolishes the Statue of the Sun, iii. 193.
Zumpango, or Tzompanco, iii. 185.
Zuñiga, Doña Juana de, second wife of Cortés, iv. 223, 235.
Zurita, i. 39, note, 43, note, 62, note, 185 note.