Vómito, or bilious fever, i. 7, 366, _note_, ii. 48, _note_, 88. W Waldeck, i. 258, 259, _note_, 265, _note_, 290, _note_, iii. 224. Wall of serpents, ii. 320, iii. 87, iv. 14. War, Aztec ideas respecting, i. 56. Mode of declaring and conducting, 56, 57. Great object of, 95. Tlascalan love of, ii. 107. Cholulans disqualified for, 182. Warburton, William, i. 106, _note_, 110, _note_. War-god. See _Huitzilopochtli_. Warren, John C., i. 255, _note_. Water, ablution with, at table, i. 168, ii. 303. Basins of, at Tezcotzinco, i. 197, 198. Use of, for religious purification, 241, _note_. Want of, iii. 336. See _Aqueducts_ and _Tezcuco lake_. Water-fowl, ii. 297. Weeks, division by, i. 126. Weights, no Mexican, ii. 318, iii. 9. Wheat, yield of, ii. 188, _note_. Wheels, chronological, i. 132, _note_. Gold and silver, ii. 17, 59, _note_. White, Blanco, ii. 267, _note_. Wild turkeys, i. 169, 191, _note_, ii. 35. Wilkinson, J. G., i. 86, 271, _note_. Wives of Montezuma, ii. 299, iii. 155, iv. 302. Women, employment and treatment of, in Mexico, i. 149, 167, 172, ii. 311. Torquemada on, i. 149, _note_. Sophocles on Egyptian men and, 149, _note_. Their appearance, 167. Asiatic, 172. Sacrificed, 218, _note_. Totonac, ii. 37. Protected at the Cholulan massacre, 205, 212. Dress of, 311. Accompany the Christian camp, iii. 168. Heroism of, iv. 58. Heroism of the Mexican, iv. 75, 93. Efforts to spare, 94, 99; to bring into New Spain, 156. See _Daughters_. Wooden ware, Mexican, i. 159. World, tradition of the destruction of the, i. 75, 140. Wounds, want of medicaments for, iv. 32, _note_. X Xalacingo, ii. 100, _note_. Xalapa, Spaniards at, ii. 88. Xaltocan, assault on, iii. 305. Xaramillo, Don Juan, iv. 191. Xicotencatl, the elder, ii. 114, 165, iii. 220. Converted, iii. 244. Ominous words of, cited, iv. 55. Xicotencatl, the younger, a Tlascalan commander, ii. 114, 121, 124, 128. His standard, 132. Facts respecting, 138, 141, 145, 146, 154, 156, 157. Countenances jealousies, iii. 216. Favors an embassy from Mexico, 221. Leads against Tepeacans, 224. Imitates Spaniards, 253. Joins Cortés, iii. 366. Leaves the army, 369. Hung, 371. Remarks on, 372. Ximenes, Cardinal, destruction of manuscripts by, i. 116. His administration, 279, iii. 355. Commission by, to redress Indian grievances, i. 286, ii. 73. Xochicalco, lake, ii. 240. Xochicalco, ruins of the temple or fortress of, i. 257, 261, _note_, 263. Xochimilco, iii. 338, 346, iv. 19. Xoloc, Fort, ii. 249. Stormed, iii. 348. Fleet at, iv. 6. Headquarters at, 7. Barracks built there, 31. Xuarez, Catalina, intimacy and marriage of Cortés with, i. 304, 308. Joins her husband, iv. 158. Fate of, 159, _note_, 226, and _note_. Y Years, Aztec, i. 126. On divisions of time into, 128. Hieroglyphics for, 129-131, _note_. On the names of, 247, _note_.