Pesquisa Secreta, or Secret Inquiry, iv. 226. Pestilence, at Mexico, iv. 87. Peten, lake and isles of, iv. 189, 192. Phonetic writing and signs, i. 106, _note_, 107, 110, 111, 120, _note_. Picture-writing, i. 106, 370, ii. 13. See _Hieroglyphics_. Pikes. See _Lances_. Pilgrims to Cholula, ii. 152. Pins, from the agave, i. 185. Pisa, tower of, i. 268. Pizarro, Francisco, iv. 213. Pizarro y Orellana, i. 297, _note_, 301, _note_, 352, _note_. Plants, medicinal, among the Aztecs, ii. 297. Plato’s Atlantis, i. 226. Plaza Mayor, in Mexico, i. 156, and _note_, iv. 152. Pliny, on the papyrus, i. 114, _note_. Poetry, connection of mythology and, i. 67, 68. Tezcucan, 218. See _Nezahualcoytl_. Polo, Marco, i. 161, _note_. On cannibalism, 244, _note_. Polygamy, among the Mexicans, i. 166, 195, _note_. Popes, power of, ii. 209, 210. Popocatepetl, ii. 187, iii. 245. Sulphur from, ii. 227, iii. 245. The Hill that smokes, ii. 223. Account of, 224. Attempt to ascend, 225. Ascended by Montaño, 227. Popotla, Cortés rests at, iii. 174. Porters, or tamanes, ii. 43. Drag cannon to Tlascala, 85, 161. Carry Narvaez’s envoys to Mexico, iii. 37. Carry wounded Spaniards, 184; rigging from Vera Cruz, 245; the brigantines from Tlascala, 301. Portraits of Cortés, Aztec, i. 262, 263, _note_. Potonchan, i. 342. Pottery, i. 159, _note_, ii. 167, 181. Poyauhtlan, battle of, ii. 105, 110. Prayers, Mexican, like Christian, i. 78, 79, _note_, 80, _note_. Of Aztec priests, 82. By Aztec confessors, 83, _note_. Sahagun collected forms of, 103. Predictions or forebodings respecting the fate of the Aztec empire, i. 73, 217, ii. 8-10, 157, 159, 215, _note_, iii. 3, 6, 269. Priestesses, i. 83. Priests, connection of, with Aztec royalty, i. 36, _note_. Aztec, 80. Their influence, 81, 96. Services by, 81. Duties of, in regard to education, 83, 113. Maintenance of, 85. Aztec and Egyptian, 86, _note_. Extorting victims for sacrifices, 96. On secret symbolic characters by the, 110. Their lunar reckoning, 132, _note_, 134. Their celebration of the kindling of the _new fire_, 141. Among Tartars, 244, _note_. Mexican word for, 250, _note_. Defend their gods, ii. 54. Consulted by Tlascalans, 142. Disclose the conspiracy at Cholula, 195. In the great temple, 325, 330. Influence Aztec warriors, iii. 130. Captured, 132. Released, 143. Hurled from the great _teocalli_, iv. 15. Sacrifice Spaniards, 52. Cheer Guatemozin, 55. The eight days’ prediction by, 55-60. Dissuade Guatemozin from surrendering, 68. Immoralities in, punished, 163. See _High-priests_.