Batanzos, Fray Domingo de, discusses the repartimientos and probable fate of the Indians, iv. 207. Baths of Montezuma, i. 198, ii. 299. Battles, Aztecs avoided slaying their enemies in, i. 96. Of Tabasco, 345, 348. Of Ceutla, 351. Between Aztecs and Tlascalans, ii. 110, 111; Spaniards and Tlascalans, 116, 120-125, 135, 143; Escalante and Quauhpopoca, ii. 339; Cortés and Narvaez, iii. 65. At the Aztec insurrection, 108-119. At the great temple, 129. On leaving Mexico, 141. Of the Melancholy Night, 167. Of Otumba, 197. Of Quauhquechollan, 229. Of Iztapalapan, iii. 286. Near Chalco, 290. At Xaltocan, 305. At Tlacopan, 310. Of Jacapichtla, 319. On the rocks of the Sierra, 327. At Cuernavaca, 336. At Xochimilco, 338, 343. At the aqueduct of Chapoltepec, 375. Naval, with the Indian flotilla, iv. 5. On the Mexican causeways, 11. With Alderete’s division, 41. With the Panuchese, 141. Beetles, Cortés aided by, iii. 67. Beggary, not tolerated, i. 206. Bejar, Duke de, befriends Cortés, iv. 142, 221. His reception of him, 218. Belus, on the tower of, i. 256 _note_. Benavente, Count of, i. 281, _note_. Bermudez, Agustin, iii. 69. Bernaldez on devils, i. 70, _note_. Bilious fever. See _Vómito_. Bird, Dr., on _mantas_, iii. 140, _note_. Birds, artificial, i. 155, _note_, 193, ii. 16, 58, _note_, 217, 313. See _Aviary_. Births, consultation at, i. 136. Bishop’s Pass, ii. 91. Bison, domesticated, i. 270, _note_. Blanc, Mont, height of, ii. 224, _note_. Blasphemy, prohibited, iii. 255. Blumenbach, on American skulls, i. 256, _note_. Bodies of the Tlascalans painted, ii. 131, 132. See _Dead_. Bodleian Library, roll and Codex in the, i. 53, _note_, 118, _note_. Body-guard of Montezuma, i. 38, _note_, ii. 300. Of Cortés, iii. 362. See _Quiñones_. Booty, law on appropriating, iii. 256. Little found in Mexico, iv. 109, 130. See _Gold_ and _Treasure_. Borunda, the Mexican Champollion, i. 121, _note_. Botanical garden, ii. 243, _note_, 297. See _Floating gardens_. Botello urges night retreat, iii. 159. Boturini, Benaduci, Chevalier, his writings and collection of manuscripts, i. 14, _note_, 25, _note_, 26, 40, _note_, 114, _note_, 117, _note_, 121, _note_, 173, _note_, 174, 175, 188, _note_, 235, _note_, ii. 258, _note_, iii. 193. Bradford’s American Antiquities, i. 223. Branding of slaves, iii. 225, 299. Brass substituted for iron, i. 154, _note_. Brasseur de Bourbourg, Abbé, cited, i. 12, _note_, 70, _note_, 122, _note_. His theory in regard to Mexican mythology, 226, _note_. Brazil secured to Portugal, ii. 209, _note_. Breaches in the causeways, made and filled, iv. 11, 38, 65, 77. Neglected by Alderete, 39. Measures for filling, 63. Bread and wine, consecrated, i. 241, _note_.