284 GENERAL INDEX TO 



Paintings, Mexican. See Hieroglyphics and Manuscripts. 

 Palenque, Ruins of an ancient Town in the Plain of, xiv, 



158. 

 Pancha Indians, their mythological Traditions, xiii, 73, and 



foil. 

 Panoes, a Tribe of Indians on the Banks of the Ucayale, 



Hieroglyphic Paintings possessed by them, xiii, 174. 

 Panquetzaliztli, Name of the seventeenth Month of the 



Mexican Year, xiii, 292. 

 Papantla, Pyramid of, Description of this Monument, xiii, 



86 ; proportion between its Basis and its Height, 90. 

 Paper of Maguey, used by the Aztecks for their Paintings, 



xiii, 136, 162. 

 Pastous, an American Nation, who eat no Flesh, xiii, 200. 

 Penitences introduced by Quetzalcoatl, xiii, 92 ; in Use 



among the Mexicans at the time of the Sacrifice which 



took place every four Years, 395. 

 Period of fifty-two Years, xiii, 286 ; of a hundred and four 



Years, ibid. 

 Perote, Coffer of, a Mountain of Mexico, xiv, 76. 

 Peak of Teneriffe, xiv, 165. 

 Pichardo (Don Jose Antonio) of Mexico, his Collection of 



Mexican Paintings, xiii, 189. 

 Pichincha, Volcano of, described, xiv, 192. See also Rucu- 



Pichincka. 

 Pite. See Agave Americana. 

 Planisphere of Bianchini, Description of this Monument, 



xiii, 362. 

 Popayon, a City of New-Grenada, its Situation, xiv, 



51. 

 Popocatepec, form of this Mountain, xiii, 838. 

 Porsenna, his Labyrinth at Clusium, xiii, 101. 

 Porters, represented on Mexican Paintings, xiv, 81. 

 Postman, who swims down Rivers, xiv, 54. 



