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GENERAL INDEX TO 



Eagle perched on a Cactus, Prodigy which indicated the 

 place where Tenochtitlan was to be built, xiv, 

 185. 



Earth, its Hieroglyphic is a Rabbit, xiv ? 25. 

 Ears pierced, who introduced this Custom among the Az- 

 tecks, xiii, 92. 



Ecaticpac, Name given to the Pyramid of Cholula, xiv, 

 221. 



Eclipses, Proof that the Mexicans knew the cause of them, 

 xiv, 173. 



Ecliptic, the Nations of Asia acquainted with two Divisions 



of it, xiii, 336, 337. 

 Egyptians, Analogy of their Calendar with that of the 



Mexicans, xiv, 224 j and still more with that of the 



Arancans, a nation of Chili, 234. 

 Ehecatl, Name of the Twentieth Day of the Month among 



the Mexicans, xiii, 313 ; its Hieroglyphic, xiv, 26. 

 Ehecatonatiuh, Age of the Air, Name of the Third Age of 



the World, according to the Tradition of the Aztecks, 



xiv, 22. 



Elements, the Four, Instruments of the Four Destructions 

 of living Creatures, xiv, 25, 30. 



Elephant, the Head of one observable on the Helmet of a 

 Priest in a Mexican Painting, xiii, 211. 



Elephants, Fossil, in New«Grenada, xiii, 12 - 7 xiv, 21. 



Emanuel, King of Portugal, said to have sent to the Pope 

 the Mexican Manuscript of Vienna, xiii, 180. 



End of the World, Mexican Tradition respecting it, xiii, 

 380 ; xiv, 226, 239. 



Epidemical Distemper at Mexico represented on a hierogly- 

 phic Painting, xiv, 171. 



Epoch at which the Era of the Mexicans begins, xiii, 

 299. 



Epochas of the Mexican History, indicated according to the 

 Era of the Aztecks, xiii, 309, 310 ; xiv, 248. 



