WHOLE VOL. THE WEST INDIES VAZQUEZ DE ESPINOSA 295 



— plus many Inspectors for woolen mills, cochineal, plantations, sugar 

 mills, and highways ; officers to allot Indians ; and to other posts 



of large emoluments 299 



There is in the City of Mexico the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisi- 

 tion, with 2 Inquisitors and an Attorney, appointed by the Inquisitor 

 General and approved by the Royal Council for the Indies ; each has 

 a salary of 2,000 assay pesos. It has Secretaries and the other officials 

 and functionaries necessary. There is also a Tribunal of the Holy 

 Crusade. 



TABLE 



Table of the Six Books and the Chapters of Part I, Dealing with 

 the District of the Secretariat of New Spain. 



Book I deals with navigation to the Indies, and with the problem 

 of its first settlers. 



Chapter i. Of the course laid'to the Indies, and the return voyage to Spain. 



Chapter 2. Demonstrating the sphericity of the earth, its dimensions, and how 

 in His Majesty's dominions at every hour Mass is being said. 



Chapter 3. Of the Universal Flood, and of the confusion of tongues at the 

 building of the Tower of Babel. 



Chapter 4. Continuing the description of the preceding subject. 



Chapter 5. Discussing the vicissitudes of the countries which had just passed 

 through the Flood, and how they split apart and how the first settlers crossed 

 to the Indies. 



Chapter 6. Continuing this subject, and how the first settlers crossed to the 

 Indies. 



Chapter 7. Continuing the preceding subject, and how those peoples crossed 

 to settle the Indies ; and the animals living in them. 



Chapter 8. Discussing the origin of the first settlers of the Indies, and when 

 they arrived, and by what route. 



Chapter 9. Continuing the discussion of the same subject, with an elucidation 

 of the prophecy in conformity with the peculiarities and characteristics, of the 

 Indies. 



Chapter 10. Continuing the discussion of the origin and ancestry of the first 

 settlers of the Indies. 



Chapter 11. How the Indians are altogether similar to the Hebrews from 

 whom they are descended. 



Chapter 12. How in their burial rites the Indians were like the Hebrews, and 

 in other matters. 



Chapter 13. Of the confusion and diversity of languages existing in the Indies. 



Chapter 14. Some notes regarding the Quichua, Aymara and other languages 

 of those kingdoms of the district of Peru, Chile, the New Kingdom of Granada, 

 and the Rio de la Plata. 



Chapter 15. On some words in the Mexican language and in others of New 

 Spain and the Spanish Main belonging to the district of New Spain. 



Chapter 16. Of various other languages spoken on the Spanish Main and in 

 the Dioceses of Caracas and Puerto Rico, which belong to the Secretariat of 

 New Spain. 



