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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XI. — Discontent at not finding gold — Torture of Guatemozin — Results 

 of the fall of the capital — Mission from Michoacan — Rebuilding of the capital — 

 Letters to the King — Intrigues against Cortez — Fonseca — Narvaez — Tapia — 

 Charles V. protects Cortez and confirms his acts, 80 



CHAPTER XII. — Cortez commissioned by the Emperor — Velasquez — his death — 

 Mexico rebuilt — Immigration — Repartimientos of Indians — Honduras — Guatemo- 

 zin — Mariana — Cortez accused — ordered to Spain for trial — his reception, honors 

 and titles — he marries — his return to Mexico — resides at Tezcoco — Expeditions of 

 Cortez — California — Gluivara — returns to Spain — death — Where are his bones? 84 



CHAPTER XIII. — Archbishop Zumarraga's destruction of Mexican monuments, 

 writings, documents — Mr. Gallatin's opinion of them — Traditions — two sources of 

 accurate knowledge — Speculations on antiquity — Aztecs — Toltecs — Nahuatlacs — 

 Acolhuans, &c. — Aztecs emigrate from Aztlan — settle in Anahuac — Tables of emi- 

 gration of the original tribes — Other tribes in the empire, 92 



CHAPTER XIV. — Difficulty of estimating the civilization of the Aztecs — Nations 

 in Yucatan — Value of contemporary history — The Aztec monarchy — elective — 

 Royal style in Tenochtitlan — Montezuma's way of life — Despotic power of the 

 Emperor over life and law — Theft — intemperance — marriage — slavery — war — Mili- 

 tary system and hospitals — Coin — Revenues — Aztec mythology — Image of Teo- 

 yaomiqui — Teocalli — Two kinds of sacrifice — Why the Aztecs sacrificed their 

 prisoners — Common Sacrifice — Gladitorial Sacrifice — Sacrificial Sione — Aztec Ca- 

 lendar — week, month, year, cycle — Procession of the New Fire — Astronomical 

 Science — Aztec Calendar — Tables, 99 



BOOK II. 



CHAPTER I. — Colonial system — Early grants of power to rulers in Mexico by the 

 Emperor Charles V. — Abuse of it — Council of the Indies — Laws — Royal audiences 

 — Cabildos — Fueros — Relative positions of Spaniards and Creoles — Scheme of 

 Spanish colonial trade — Restrictions on trade — Alcabala — Taxes — Papal Bulls — 

 Bulls de Cruzada — de Defuntos — of Composition — Power of the Church — its pro- 

 perty — Inquisition — The acts of the Inquisition — Repartimientos — Indians — Agri- 

 culturists — Miners — Mita — Excuses for maladministration, 127 



CHAPTER II. — Founding of the Viceroyalty of New Spain — New Audiencia — 

 Fuenleal — Mendoza — Early acts of the first Viceroy — Coinage — Rebellion in Ja- 

 lisco — Viceroy suppresses it — Council of the Indies on Repartimientos — Indian 

 Servitude — Q-uivara — Expeditions of Coronado and Alarcon — Pest in 1546 — Revo- 

 lution — Council of Bishops — Mines — Zapotecs revolt — Mendoza removed to Peru, 



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CHAPTER III. — Velasco endeavors to ameliorate the condition of the Indians — 

 University of Mexico established — Inundation — Military colonization — Philip II — 

 Florida — Intrigues against Velasco — Philipine Isles — Death of Velasco — Marques 

 de Falces — Baptism of the grand-children of Cortez — Conspiracy against the Mar- 

 ques del Valle — his arrest — execution of his friends — Marques de Falces — charges 

 against him — his fall — Errors of Philip II. — Fall of Munoz and his return — Vin- 

 dication of the Viceroy, , . . . . 148 



CHAPTER IV. — Almanza Viceroy — Chichimecas revolt — Jesuits — Inquisition — 

 Pestilence — No Indian tribute exacted — Almanza departs — Xuares Viceroy — Weak 

 Administration — Increase of commerce — Pedro Moya de Contreras Viceroy — Re- 

 forms under a new Viceroy — His power as Viceroy and Inquisitor — Zuniga Vice- 

 roy — Treasure — Piracy — Cavendish — Drake captures a galeon — Zuniga and the 

 Audiencia of Guadalajara — His deposition from power, 160 



