_Cujo or Cuyo_, government of La Plata, ii. 215. Boundaries, climate, features, history, rivers, lakes, productions, 216. Commerce, capital, 218. _Cuitlahualtzin_, or _Quetlavaca_, King of Mexico, i. 117. _Culpeu_, or Chili fox, singular habits of, ii. 257. _Cumana_, province of. See _New Andalusia_. _Cumana_, city of Caraccas, scite, ii. 25. Port, citadel, rivers, suburbs, buildings, climate, population, 26. Indians, 27. Customs of the inhabitants, harbour, earthquakes, 28. Environs, 30. _Cumanacoa_, town of Caraccas, ii. 32. _Cumanagoto_ Indians, ii. 14. _Cumanches_ Indians, i. 71. _Cunches_ Indians, ii. 288. _Curaçoa_ Island, trade of with Caraccas, ii. 50. _Curico_, mine of Chili, ii. 251. ---- town of Chili, ii. 275. _Curimayo_, ancient gold mines of Peru, ii. 80. _Curuguaty_, town of La Plata, ii. 204. _Cuzcatlan_, or _San Salvador_, city of Guatimala, i. 162. _Cuzco_, intendency of Peru, ii. 140. ----, city of, scite, foundation, ii. 141. Ancient splendour, history, antiquities, buildings, cathedral, 142. Temple of the sun, public edifices, bishopric, population, trade, 143. D _Darien_, isthmus of, i. 232. ----, province of New Granada, extent, climate, inhabitants, i. 239. Rivers, produce, population, capital, 240. Scotch colonization of, 241. ----, gulf of, i. 240. _Daule_, district of New Granada, i. 313. _Danta_, large animal of Quito, i. 323. _Degu_, or Chilese dormouse, ii. 256. _Desaguadero_, singular river of La Plata, ii. 180. _Descabezado_, mountain of Chili, ii. 249. _Doctrinas_, or villages of Spanish America, ii. 34. _Dominic de Gourges_, attack of Florida by, i. 7. _Don Josef Sarmiento Valladares Conde de Montezuma_, a descendant of Montezuma, viceroy of Mexico, i. 31. _Doraces_, Indians, i. 178. _Duida_ mountain of Guiana, i. 222. _Durango_, intendancy of. See _New Biscay_. _Durango_, city of New Spain, i. 93. E _Earthquakes_ at Guatimala, i. 160. At Quito, 294. At Riobamba, 307. At Caraccas, ii. 6. At Cumana, 28. At Valencia in Caraccas, 56. At Lima, 118. At Arequipa, 148. In Chili, 250. _El Altar_, mountain, i. 301. _El Corazon_, mountain, i. 300. _El Dorado_, or Golden mountain, i. 222. _El Dorado_, celebrated fictitious city, ii. 17, 18. 71. _Elevation_ on the Cordillera of New Spain, at which sugar, cotton, cacao, and indigo, and European grains flourish, i. 36. Also pines and the banana, 37. _Ekanfanoga_, a swamp in Florida, i. 16. _Encomiendas_, history of, ii. 106. _Equator_ crosses the great mountain Cayambe Urcu, i. 300. _Eruptions_ of Cotopaxi volcano, i. 310. _Escambia Coenecah_, river of Florida, i. 14. _Escuintla_, district of Guatimala, i. 163. _Espiritu Santo_, or Nassau Bay in Florida, i. 19. _Europeans_, number of in New Spain, i. 47. In Spanish America, ii. 319.