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INDEX. 



Pitch, springs of, 165 



Planets, motions of, 7 



Plantains, 241 



Plants, introduced from Spain, 265 



Plate, river, inundations of, 78, 158 



Plato, his opinion touching the New 

 World, 36 ; on Atlantis, 64, 65, 90 



Pliny, held the opinion of Aristotle as 

 to the tropics, 29, 32 ; ignorant of 

 the compass, 49, 55 ; mentions cro 

 codiles, 148 ; on emeralds, 225 ; 

 silver, 201 ; pearls, 227 ; birds, 275 ; 

 millet, 231 ; plane, 241 ; on a story, 

 in Cornelius Nepos, of Indians com 

 ing to the King of Sue via, 55 ; 

 death of, at Mount Vesuvius, 177 ; 

 on mines in Spain, 201 ; on quick 

 silver, 213 



Poles, arctic, 171 ; antarctic, 16, 28, 

 170 



Portuguese, expert in navigation, 15 



Potatoes, 233 



Prickly pear, 463 



Priests, in Mexico, 330 ; training of, 

 in Mexico, 443 



Ptolemy, believed the tropics to be 

 habitable, 91 



Puna of Peru ; intense cold, 132, 133 



Purgatives, 261 



Quicksilver, properties of, 211 ; dis 

 covery of in Peru, 214, 215 ; method 

 of preserving workmen from poison 

 of, 212 



Rainbow, worship of, 304 



Rainfall, in the tropics, 79 ; effects of 



sun on, 84 ; tempers heat, 91 ; rain 



bearing winds, 127 ; in Peru, 165 ; 



cause of no rain on the Peruvian 



coast, 166 

 Rice, 234 

 Rivers, Amazons, 156 ; Pongo, or 



rapid, 157 ; of Peru, 158 

 Romero. (See Pilot fish. ) 

 Roots, edible. (See Potatoe, 233; Oca, 



235; Camote, 235 ; Yuca, 233, 235.) 



Sacraments of the Church, counter 

 feited by the Devil, 346, 354 



Sacrifices human, in Mexico, 323 ; 

 346 to 350; Peruvian, 340, 341, 

 342, 343, 344 



Salomon Isles ; opinions as to position, 

 18 ; discovery, 46, 47, 115 



Salt, fountain of, 155 



Saltpetre, cools water, 95 



Sarsaparilla, 156 



Schinus Molle, 264 



Schools, in the Mexican temples, 442 



Sea sickness, 129 



Seneca, thought to have alluded to 



the West Indies, 34, 35 

 Sharks, voracity of, 147 

 Sheep, in the Indies, 270 

 Sickness, at sea, 129 



at great heights, 130, 131 



Silver, in the Indies, 194 ; Pliny on, 

 201 ; refining, 217 ; engines for 

 grinding ores, 222 ; trial of, 223 



Sloths, 284 



Snow blindness, 288 



Sorcerers, 362, 367, 498 



South sea, 56, 134 



Southern cross. (See Stars.) 



Springs, hot and cold, 154, 156; of 

 pitch, 155 ; of salt, 155; at Guaya 

 quil, flowing by sarsaparilla, 156; 

 rising on Vilcanota, 156 



Stars, their motions, 6 ; Southern 

 Cross, 14 ; and Canopus, 64 ; milky 

 way, 7, 14, 15; in southern hemi 

 sphere, 14 ; names in Peru, 305 



Storax, 260 



Strabo, on balsam, 258 



Suevia, King of. (See Pliny.) 



Sugarcane, 269 



Sumatra, 49, 55, 91 



Sun, effect on rainfall, 78, 85 ; on va 

 pours, 86; worship of, 303, 304, 

 305 ; argument against its being 

 God, 310 



Synod of Lima ; rule as to marriages, 

 426 



Tapirs, 283 



Tarshish, 38, 40, 41, 42 



Tarugas, 288 



Temples, in the Indies, 325 



Theodoret ; opinion as to the shape of 

 the Heavens, 2 ; on the position of 

 Tarshish, 41 



Theophilus, 2 



Theophrastus, 48 ; emeralds men 

 tioned by, 225 



Thunder and lightning, worship of, 

 304 



Tides, 143, 144, 145 



Timber trees, 262 



Time, change of, in sailing round the 

 world, 173 



Tobacco, 261 



Totora, 235, 417 



Trinity of the Peruvians, 373 



Tropics, held to be uninhabitable, 25 ; 

 climate of, 76, 77 ; rainfall, 79 ; 

 abound in water and pastures, 81 ; 

 dry regions of, 88, 89 ; moderate 

 heat in, 90, 91, 94, 95 ; length of 



