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INDEX. 



China, learning, 401 ; writing, 408 



Chirimoya, 251 



Chocolate, 244, 245 



Chicha, 230, 231 



Chrysostom, St., notion of the shape of 

 the earth and heavens, 1, 2 



Climate, in tropics, 76, 77 ; beyond 

 tropics, 77 ; of Chile, 78 ; dry re 

 gions in tropics, 88 ; lofty regions 

 the coldest, 96 ; cause of rainless 

 belt on coast of Peru, 166, 167 



Cloth made from llama wool, 289 



Coca, 164, 189, 244, 245, 246 



Cocoa nuts, 253 



Cochineal, 248 



Comet in 1577, motion, 122 



Compass, ancients ignorant of, 48, 49 ; 

 virtues of the load- stone, 50, 51 ; 

 variation, 52 



Condors, 279 



Confession, used in Peru, 361, 362 &quot; 



Conversion, divine arrangements for, 

 528 



Copal, 260 



Corn. (See Maize.) 



Cotton, 249 



Council of Lima, vii 



Dances, Peruvian and Mexican, 444 to 

 446 



Dantas or tapirs, 283 



Datura, sent to Spain by the Viceroy 

 Toledo, 255 



Dead, the worship of, 311, 313 ; cus 

 toms in Peru, 314 ; in Mexico, 315 



Deluge, tradition of, 70 



Devil, the, his pride the cause of 

 idolatry, 298 ; his malice, 300, 307 ; 

 his ciinning, 324 ; monks invented 

 by, 334; penance invented by, 337 ; 

 sacrifices to, 340 ; cruelty of un 

 endurable, 352 ; imitates the sacra 

 ments of the church, 354, 356 ; con 

 fession to, 360 ; unction, 364 ; illu 

 sions of, 371 ; invents a Trinity, 

 373, 377 ; final defeat of, 381 



Dioscorides, 48 



Dogs in the Indies, 272 



Drugs, 260 



Dyes, 260 



Earth, shape, opinion of the ancients, 

 1 ; part discovered, 18 ; circum 

 navigated, 4 ; round, 5 ; rests upon 

 nothing, 10 ; distribution of land 

 and sea, 17 ; worship of, 304 



Earthquakes, 178, 179, 180 



Eclipses, proof of roundness of the 

 earth from, 5 



Emeralds, 37, 224, 225 



Equinoctial, nature of, 73 ; crossed by 



the author, iii, 90 

 Eudoxus, voyage of, 33 

 Eusebius on prognostications, 506, 508 



Fathers of the Church (see Augustine, 



Chrysostom, Jerome, Gregory Nazi- 



anzen), they may err, 3 

 Feathers, art of working in, 280 

 Fig tree at Mala, 268 

 Fishery. (See Pearl.) 

 Fishing (see Whale), in balsas, 150 ; by 



Chirihuanas, 151 ; in Lake Titicaca, 



151 



Floating gardens at Mexico, 469 

 Flocks. (See Llamas.) 

 Florida, strait of, 140 

 Floriponclio, flower, 255, (See Datura.) 

 Flowers in the Indies, 255 

 Frost-bite, a man lost his toes by, 133 

 Fruits of the Indies, 236, 237 

 Fruit trees, 265, 268, 249, 251, 2f&amp;gt;2 



Gallinazos or turkey buzzards, 279 

 Gardens, floating, at Mexico, 469 

 Genoa, great emerald at, 225 

 Ginger grown in the Indies, 239 

 Giants, bones of, found at Manta and 



Puerto Viejo, 56 ; in Mexico, 454 

 Gold in the Indies, 190 to 193 

 Granadilla, fruit of the passion flower, 



256 



Gregory Nazianzen, 8, 23 

 Guano on the coast of Peru, 281 

 Guayavos, fruit, 250 

 Guiuea,Ne w, opinions concerning, 1 8, 47 



Hanno, voyage of, 32 



Head-dresses, 422 



Heavens, shape of, notion of St. Chri- 

 sostom, 1, 2 ; of Theodoret, 2 ; of 

 Lactantius, 2 ; of St. Jerome, 2 ; 

 of Procopius, 2, 8 ; of St. Augustine, 

 2 ; true shape, 5, 7, 12 ; proof from 

 eclipses, 5 



Hispaniola said to be Ophir, 37 



History, profit to be derived from, 388, 

 448 



Horses in the Indies, 271 



Human sacrifices, 320, 346 to 350 



Humming-birds, 279 



Idols (see Devil), in Mexico, 318, 319, 

 369 ; in Peru, 371 ; the testimony 

 of, 508 



Idolatry, forms of, 303 ; sin of, 306 



Imagination, uses of, 20 



Indian corn. (See Maize.) 



Indies (America or New World), by 

 what means men might have first 



