History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 4/4Prescott, William Hickling
History
History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 4/4
Prescott, William Hickling
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
His life in the Spanish quarters, 360.
His munificence, 361.
His visit to the great temple, 363.
Sails in a brigantine, 365.
Plan for liberating, by Cacama, 368.
Intercedes for Cacama, 369.
Swears allegiance, iii. 4.
His gifts for the emperor, 7-10.
Parting of Cortés and, 46.
Sends a messenger to Cortés, 83.
Checks the Aztecs in an insurrection, 92.
Welcomes Cortés, and is coldly received, 95.
Cuitlahua chosen successor of, 97, 195, 218.
Witnesses the Aztec fighting, 121.
Prevailed on to address the Aztecs, 122.
Insulted, 124.
Wounded, 124, and _note_.
Last days and death of, 125, 147.
Commends his children to Cortés, 149.
His conversation with Cortés, 149.
Fate of his children, 149, _note_, 155, _note_, 162,
249, iv. 104, and _note_, 186, _note_, 318.
Compassion for him, iii. 150, 154, 157.
His character, 151.
Descendant of, viceroy of Mexico, 156, _note_.
Respect to his memory, 157.
His successor, 195, 218.
Son of, goes to Spain, iv. 212.
See _Cortés_ and _Tecuichpo_.
Montezuma’s Hill. See _Hill_.
Months, Aztec division of, i. 126.
Monument at the limits of Tlascala, ii. 103, 111, 115, iii. 204.
Moon, worshipped, i. 208, _note_.
Monument to the, iii. 190.
Moran, a horseman, assaulted, ii. 122.
Moratin, cited on Marina, i. 363, _note_.
Morgan, Lewis H., cited, i. 14, _note_, 27, _note_, 31
_note_, ii. 288, _note_, 306, _note_.
Morla, condemned to be hung, ii. 51.
Morla, Francisco de, iii. 162, 170, 181.
Morpeth, Lord, cited, ii. 37, _note_.
Morton, S. G., on the burial of the dead, i. 245, _note_.
Facial angle of his skulls, 255, _note_.
Remarks on his Crania Americana, 256, _note_.
Mosaic, imitated, i. 160.
Mothers. See _Daughters_.
Motilla, Sandoval’s steed, iv. 49, _note_.
Motolinia, ii. 274.
Mound to Quetzalcoatl, ii. 183, 187, 204.
Mountain of Flints, iv. 193.
Muñoz, zeal of, respecting the manuscript of Sahagun’s History, i. 103.
Manuscript of Hernandez discovered by, 193, _note_.
Transcribed an account of Grijalva’s expedition, 296, _note_.
Murray, C. A., i. 55, _note_.
Musa, the plant, i. 150.
Music, council of, i. 185.
Its influence, 186.
Instruments of, 208.
Musketry, i. 351.
See _Fire-arms_.
Mythology, i. 66.
Mexican, 68.
Effect of the Aztec, 219.
N
Naco, expeditions to, iv. 175, 195.
Najera, his Dissertatio de Lingua Othomitorum, i. 251, _note_.
Naming children, ceremony of, i. 78, 240.
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