Swords, substitutes for, ii. 134. Symbolical writing, i. 107. T Tabascans, i. 343-348. Conversion of, 357. Tabasco, Rio de, i. 293, 342, iv. 179. Tabasco, town of, i. 344, 348. Table, ceremonies at, i. 168. Table-land, i. 8, ii. 88. Tables, hieroglyphical, i. 131, _note_. Tactics, Aztec military, i. 59. Tacuba. See _Tlacopan_. Tamanes. See _Porters_. Tamerlane’s skulls, ii. 330, _note_. Tangapan, lord of Michoacán, iii. 296, _note_. Tapia, Andrés de, i. 353, _note_, ii. 205, _note_, 306, _note_, 329, _note_, 347, _note_, iii. 17, _note_, 335, iv. 38, 46, 48, 62. Tapia, Christóval de, commissioner to Vera Cruz, iii. 355, iv. 140. Bought off, iv. 141. In Castile, 143. Brings charges against Cortés, 143. Tarentum, vessels at, iii. 24, _note_. Tasco, mines of, i. 153, iv. 153. Tatius, Achilles, i. 248, _note_. Taxes. See _Revenues_ and _Tribute_. Tax-gatherers, i. 54, ii. 44. Collect tribute for the Spanish sovereign, iii. 6. Tecocol, cacique of Tezcuco, iii. 268, 269, _note_. Tecpan, ii. 191, _note_. Tectetan, meaning of, i. 290. Tecuhtli, i. 33, _note_. Tecuichpo, daughter of Montezuma and wife of Guatemozin, iii. 155, _note_, 249, iv. 104, 186, _note_. Her several husbands, iii. 155, _note_, iv. 186, _note_. Cortés’ reception of, iv. 104. Grant to, 318. Teeth, Aztec custom as to, i. 168, _note_. Tehuantepec, iv. 231, 232. Telleriano-Remensis, Codex, i. 95, _note_, 120, _note_. Tellier, Archbishop, i. 120, _note_. Temixtitan, a corruption of _Tenochtitlan_, i. 21. Tempest after the surrender, iv. 106. Temples, or teocallis, to Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Mars, i. 70. Account of, 84-87, _note_. On the teachings of Egyptian, 106, _note_. Built by Nezahualcoyotl, to the Unknown God, 208. Toltec, dedicated to the Sun, 208. Various, at Cholula, 234, ii. 183-185. All destroyed, i. 257, iii. 165, and _note_. Resemblances to, in the East, i. 257, 261. At Xochicalco, 257, 261, _note_. At Cozumel, 332, 337. Rifled by Alvarado, 332. Turret of one in Mexico burned, ii. 10, 11. At Tlatlanquitepec, 93. On the hill of Tzompach, 125, 162. To Quetzalcoatl, 183, 203, 329. Modern, on the site of Quetzalcoatl’s, 217. In Mexico, 319-322, 328. Occupied at Cempoalla, iii. 62. At Popotla, 174. On the hill of Otoncalpolco, 176. On a pyramid of Teotihuacan, 192. At Xochimilco, 342. At Tacuba, 350. Burnt by Alvarado, iv. 76. See _Huitzilopochtli_, _Idols_, and _Quetzalcoatl_. Tenajoccan, town of, iii. 307, _note_. Tenochtitlan, i. 21. Called Mexico, 21. The word, 21, _note_, ii. 257, _note_. Prosperity and enlargement of, i. 25. See _Mexico_. Teoamoxtli, or divine book, i. 122, _note_. Teotihuacan, pyramids of, iii. 189. Tepanecs, i. 19, 23, 177, 182. Tepeaca, colony at, iii. 239. Tepeacan allies, iv. 56. Tepeacans, iii. 223. Tepechpan, lord of, exposed to death, i. 201. Tepejacac causeway, ii. 284, iv. 9. Tetzmellocan, village of, iii. 259.