548 



INDEX. 



Ticaapan, 460 

 Tlatellulco, 496 

 Tocci, 461. An idol. 

 Tozcoatl, 377 

 Tlacael, 436 



Tlacaellel, 478, 479, 481, 484, 487 ; 

 refuses the crown, 491 ; death, 494 

 Tlascala, 504, 517, 519, 530 

 Topilcin, 514 

 Tula, 459 



Vitzilipuztli (Mexican god), 305, 356, 

 455, 457, 460, 463, 469 ; festival of, 

 357, 377, 491, 500 



Vitzilovitli, 471 



Zacatecas, 210. A province in the 

 north of Mexico on the tropic of 

 Cancer, 210 miles long by 177. Its 

 tableland is 6,500 feet above the 



LIST OF SPANIARDS AND OTHER EUROPEANS 

 MENTIONED BY ACOSTA. 



Acosta, Bernardo de, brother of the 

 author, i ; in Mexico, ix 



Christoval de, i ; author of a 

 work on the drugs of India, ii, n. 



- Joseph de, THE AUTHOR, his 

 birth, i ; becomes a Jesuit, ii ; sails 

 for Peru, ii, 56 ; on the isthmus of 

 Panama, ii, 263 ; observes the antics 

 of monkeys, 285 ; crosses the line, 

 iii, 90 ; arrival in Peru, iii; crosses 

 the Andes, his sufferings, 130, 131 ; 

 cured of snow blindness, 288 ; goes 

 to Lima, v ; at the Council of Lima, 

 vii ; his sermon, vii ; sailed for Mex 

 ico, viii, 127, 391, 400 ; his return 

 to Spain, ix, 194, 204, 226, 239, 

 260, 271 ; had seen the part of the 

 heavens unknown to the ancients, 

 4 ; his views respecting the peopling 

 of America, 46 ; believed that the 

 Old and New World were joined, or 

 approached near, 60 ; heard about 

 the Amazons from a Jesuit who 

 had been with Ursua, 82 ; saw the 

 comet of 1577 in Peru, 122 ; saw 

 camels in Peru, 272 ; knew a man 

 who lost his toes by frost-bite, 133 ; 

 conversations with Sarmiento s 

 pilots, 140 ; saw giants bones in 

 Mexico, 454 ; his publication of the 

 first two books of the Natural His 

 tory in Latin, ix, xi ; his religious 

 works published at llome, x ; his 

 work, l)e Promulgntione Evanyelii, 

 xi ; his Natural History published 

 in Spanish, xii ; editions and trans 

 lations, xiii ; the English transla 

 tion, xiv ; account of, by Antonio, 

 xv, n. ; his death at Salamanca, x 

 Aguirre, Lope de, the famous pirate 

 who descended the river Amazon in 



1560. Acosta heard of the won 

 derful voyage from a Jesuit who, 

 when young, was in it, v, 83. He 

 has Diego instead of Lope. (See 

 Search for El Dorado, Hakluyt So 

 ciety s volume for 1861.) 



Alcobaa, Diego de, his confession- 

 aries in native languages, v 



Almagro, Diego de, allusion to his in 

 vasion of Chile, 133 



Alonzo, Hernando, pilot in the expe 

 dition of Sarmiento, his account of 

 the Straits of Magellan, 143 



Alvarado, Pedro de, 521. In com 

 mand at Mexico. He was the chief 

 lieutenant of Hernan Cortes, and 

 afterwards conquered Guatemala. 



Antonio, Dr. Nardo, an Italian phy 

 sician, alluded to as cpaoting from 

 the work of Dr. Francisco Her 

 nandez, 261 



Arriaga, Pabl o Jose de, his work on 

 the extirpation of idolatry, v 



Avila, Dr. Francisco de, his work on 

 the folk-lore of Huarochiri, v 



Balboa, Blasco Nunez de, discoverer 

 of the South Sea, 135 



Bertonio, Ludovico, his Aymara dic 

 tionary, v 



Betanzos, Fray Domingo de, a Domi 

 nican, 531. He was born at Leon, 

 and studied at Salamanca, whence 

 he went to Rome to seek permis 

 sion from the Pope to become a 

 hermit. Having obtained the de 

 sired leave, he went to the Isle of 

 Ponza and lived there as a hermit 

 for live years. He then became a 

 Dominican and, in 1514, he went to 

 Hispaniola. In 1526 he was one of 

 the iir.st twelve Dominicans who 



