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
Narvaez, Pánfilo de, i. 288, ii. 71, _note_.
Notice of, iii. 30.
Commander of Velasquez’s fleet against Cortés, 30.
Will not listen to Ayllon, 32.
Arrives at San Juan de Ulua, 33.
His summons to Sandoval, 36.
Seizes Ayllon and sends him back, 35.
Envoys of, carried by porters to Mexico, 37.
Cortés’ mission to him, 40.
Olmedo’s intercourse with, 41.
At Cempoalla, 42.
Proposes to liberate Montezuma, 42.
Cortés
marches against, 46.
His summons to Cortés to surrender, 49.
His envoys to Cortés, 53.
Reply to, 56.
Preparations for assaulting, 59.
Marches to the River of Canoes, 61.
His sentinels, 61.
Attacked and defeated, 64.
Wounded, 66.
Treatment of, by Cortés, 70.
His gossip with Oviedo, 73, _note_.
Murmurs among his troops, 74.
Property taken from, 76, _note_.
Mutinies among the levies from, 137, 212, 215, 356.
To send Cortés for trial to Spain, 237.
Proceedings in Spain in regard to, 355, _note_.
Ordered before Cortés, iv. 143.
Brings charges against Cortés, 144.
See _Spaniards_.
Nations, on the identification of, i. 245.
Nativities, astrologers consulted at, i. 136.
Naulinco, entertainment at, ii. 90.
Negro slaves, introduction of, into the Western World, ii. 73.
Transportation of, by Cortés, iv. 233.
See _Slaves_.
Nero, Cortés and, ii. 207, _note_.
New fire, the, i. 140, _note_, 141.
New Spain, number of languages in, i. 249.
Yucatan called, 292.
Early settlements in, iv. 156.
Condition of the natives there, 162.
Population of, in 1810, 162, _note_.
Arrival of Franciscan friars in, 163.
Royal audience of, 209, 225.
New royal audience of, 228.
Viceroy of, 234.
New Spain of the Ocean Sea, iii. 240.
New Zealanders and Otaheitans, i. 229, _note_.
Nezahualcoyotl, prince of the Tezcucans, efficiency of, i. 19, 23, 177.
Poetry by, 24, _note_, 188, _note_, 209, iv. 272.
Mexican code under, i. 51, _note_, 184.
Meaning of the name, 111, 197, _note_.
Personal history and adventures of, 177.
Conquers Maxtla, 183.
Four historians of the royal house of, 187, _note_.
An illustrious bard, 188.
Pile of buildings erected by, 191, 195.
Nezahualpilli, monarch of Tezcuco, i. 45.
Account of, 215.
His treatment of his guilty wife, 216, _note_, iv. 281.
Has forebodings of calamity to his country, i. 218, ii. 8, iii. 269.
His death, i. 218, ii. 8.
His obsequies, i. 218, _note_.
Address made by, at the coronation of Montezuma as king, ii. 4, iii. 154.
Contest respecting the succession to, ii. 8, 366, iii. 272.
Spaniards quartered in his palace, iii. 267.
Pardons a son, 271.
Niebuhr, on calendars, i. 129, _note_, 132, _note_.
Night attacks, ii. 118, 143, iii. 63, 163.
Nine “companions,” the, i. 133, _note_.
Noah, Quetzalcoatl identified with, i. 73, _note_.
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