Diaz, Bernal, errors of, ii. 175, _note_. His way of life, iii. 22, _note_. His share of spoil, 75, _note_. Letter not signed by, 242, _note_. Account of, and of his writings, 274-277. Ravine crossed by, 335, _note_. Leaves his farm to accompany Cortés to Honduras, iv. 177, _note_. On the Christianity of Guatemozin and the prince of Tacuba, 185, _note_. On Cortés at Honduras, 201. His character of Cortés, 261-263. Diaz, Juan, the licentiate, efforts of, to convert natives, i. 337, ii. 364. His conspiracy, ii. 65. Performs mass in the great temple, 334, iii. 17. Dikes opened upon the Spaniards at Iztapalapan, iii. 287. See _Causeways_ and _Breaches_. Discovery, progress of, by the beginning of the reign of Charles V., i. 284. Catholic and Protestant views as to, ii. 209, 210, _note_. Progress of, under Cortés, iv. 134, 155, 170, 232, 235. Dishes of Montezuma, ii. 300. Divine book, or Teoamoxtli, i. 122, _note_. Domestic manners of the Aztecs, i. 165. Dominican friars, i. 285, ii. 75-77. Dove, coincidences with Noah’s, i. 233, 234. On the topmast, 301. Drain of Huehuetoca, ii. 283. Draught-cattle, want of, i. 158, 270, iii. 223. Draw-bridges, Mexican, ii. 250, 286, 336, iii. 98. Dresden Codex, i. 118, and _note_, 119, _note_, 263. Dresses, of Aztec warriors, i. 58. Owls embroidered on, 70, _note_. Of Cholulans, ii. 190. Of Aztec chiefs, 249. Of Montezuma, 252, 300, iii. 122. Of Mexicans, 311. Of Indian allies, iii. 115, 253. Drought at Tezcuco, ii. 275. Drum, the Tlascalan, ii. 121. The huge Mexican, 323, iii. 165. Of the war-god, sounded for the sacrifice of Spaniards, iv. 52. Ducat, value of the, ii. 18, _note_. Duero, Andres de, i. 311, 318. In Narvaez’s armada, iii. 40. Envoy to Cortés, 53, 56. To share in the profits, 56. At Cempoalla, 69. Unhorsed and rehorsed, 118. Remonstrates, 213. Returns to Cuba, 236. In Spain, sustaining Velasquez, 236. Dupaix, i. 137, _note_, 224, 258, _note_. On Mexican tools, 260, _note_. On antedeluvian buildings, 265, _note_. Du Ponceau, P. S., i. 249, _note_. On the synthetic structure of the Indian dialects, 249, _note_. Dyes, and dye-woods, Mexican, i. 159, 285. E Eagle, on a standard, ii. 132, iii. 366. Earthen-ware, Aztec, i. 159. Earthquake, i. 110. Ebeling, collection of maps by, iv. 179, _note_. Eclipses, Aztec knowledge as to, i. 137. Education, Aztec, i. 83, 166, ii. 330. For the profession of hieroglyphical painting, i. 113. The council of music virtually a board of, 185. Of the Tezcucan royal household, 195. Egyptians, temples of, i. 106, _note_. Hieroglyphics of, 108, 109. Sothic period of, 133, _note_. Sophocles on the, 149, _note_. Addresses to their kings by priests, 195. Their representations of the human frame, 262. Elphinstone, W., on mythology, i. 68, _note_.