Cuba, i. 287. Expeditions from, to Yucatan, 289-295. Cortés in, 303-307. Propositions in the army to return to, ii. 20, 25, 27. Cortés’ emissaries land at, 64. Las Casas’ labors in, 73. Cortés’ apprehensions from, 220. Sailing of Narvaez’s fleet from, iii. 33. Desire of troops to return to, 212, 357. Return of some to, 236. Cortés driven to, iv. 201. See _St. Jago de Cuba_, and _Velasquez_. Cuernavaca, or Quauhnahuac, capture of, iii. 332-336. Asks aid, iv. 61. Cortés’ residence at, 230. Remarks on, 230. Cuicuitzca, made cacique of Tezcuco, ii. 371, _note_, iii. 264. Put to death, iii. 265. Cuitlahua, lord of Iztapalapan, ii. 236. Interview of, with Cortés, 242. Accompanies Montezuma, 251. Released, iii. 96, 218. Supplies Montezuma’s place, 97, 121, _note_. Arouses the Aztecs for the battle of Otumba, 195, 218. Notice of, 217. Dies of smallpox, 235, 246. Succeeded by Guatemozin, 249. Cuitlahuac, Spaniards at, ii. 241. Culinary science, Aztec, ii. 301. Currency, Mexican, i. 161, ii. 318. Cycles, Aztec, i. 74, 127, _note_, 129. Persian, 127, _note_. Etruscan 128, _note_. Wheels of, 132, _note_. Of the lunar reckoning by the priests, 132, _note_. Analogies respecting, in the Old and the New World, 232, 246. Cypress, Cortés’, ii. 98. Size of, 298. D Dancing, Mexican, i. 171, and _note_. Darien, Isthmus of, crossed, i. 284. Colony there, 285, 340. Oviedo there, iii. 98. Dates, on Mexican, i. 129. Daughters, counsels to, i. 166, iv. 267. Days, Aztec arrangement of, i. 127, 128. Division of civil, 138, _note_. Coincidences as to the signs of, 246. Dead, burnt, i. 78, 218, _note_. Buried, 78, _note_. Coincidences as to the obsequies of the, 244, 245. Carried off in battle, ii. 124, 125. Spanish, buried, 139. Unburied during the siege, iv. 73, 87, 105. Buried, 108. See _Funeral ceremonies_. Death, a penalty, i. 42. Judges punished with, 45. For crimes, 45. Inflicted on soldiers, 60. Two sons put to, by a Tezcucan prince, 60. Defaulters, liable to slavery, i. 54. Deities, Mexican, i. 69-73. Days and festivals appropriated to, 69, 88. On unity and plurality of, 69, _note_. Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Mars, 70. Quetzalcoatl, the god of the air, 71. Penates, 75, 140. Tezcatlipoca, 89, ii. 326. See _Huitzilopochtli_, _Idols_, _Quetzalcoatl_, and _Tezcatlipoca_. Delafield’s Antiquities, map in, i. 252, _note_. Deluge, coincidences as to the, in the Old and the New World, i. 233. Denon, on an Egyptian temple, i. 106, _note_. De Roo, P., cited, i. 237, _note_, 238, _note_. Devil, Mexican, i. 70, _note_, 95, _note_. His delusion of the Aztecs, 242, _note_, 243. Cortés possessed with the, ii. 33, _note_. Diary of Cortés, lost, iii. 180.