Latrobe, his descriptions, i. 7, _note_. On the calendar-stone, 158, _note_. Describes two baths, 198, _note_. On Indian antiquities, 200, _note_. On Tacuba, iii. 176, _note_. On the interposition of the Virgin, 184, _note_. Describes a cavity in a pyramid, 191, _note_.
Lawrence, on animals in the New World, i. 225, _note_.
Laws, Aztec, i. 47. Military codes, 60, iii. 254, iv. 324. Nezahualcoyotl’s code of, i. 184.
Le Noir, M., i. 119, _note_, 264, _note_.
Leon, Juan Velasquez de, joins Cortés, i. 322. At Tabasco, 349. In irons, ii. 32. At Tlascala, 172. Aids in seizing Montezuma, 342, 344. Guards him, 348. Montezuma’s pleasure in his company, 363. To plant a colony at Coatzacualco, 373. Charged with purloining plate, iii. 12. Narvaez’s letter to, 44. Joins Cortés at Cholula, 48. Fidelity of, 59, 72, _note_, 77. To secure Panuco, 77. Joins Cortés at Tlascala, 79. Tries to calm his anger, 96. Chivalrous, 119. At the evacuation of Mexico, 162. Killed, 181. Fate of gold collected by, 210.
Leon, Luis Ponce de, _juez de residencia_, iv. 206.
Lieber, Francis, on punishment, i. 184, _note_.
Litters, ii. 44, 238, 251, 346, iii. 46, 200.
Lopez, Gerónimo, condemns the education given by the missionaries, iv. 165, _note_.
Lopez, Martin, ship-builder, ii. 359, iii. 175, 233, 245, 299.
Lord’s Supper, rite like the, i. 239, 241.
Lorenzana, on a tribute-roll, i. 53, _note_. On the seizure of Montezuma, ii. 354, _note_. Cited, iii. 132, _note_, iv. 37, _note_.
Louis XI., disclosure in his reign, iii. 300.
Lucretius, cited on iron, i. 271, _note_.
Lujo, Francisco de, i. 347, ii. 342. Encourages Cortés, iii. 59. At the evacuation of Mexico, 162.
Lyell, Charles, on the spread of mankind, i. 229, _note_.
Machiavelli, i. 26, _note_, 101, _note_, ii. 12, _note_.
Magistrates, Aztec, i. 43. Nezahualpilli the terror of unjust, 216, _note_.
Mahometan belief as to martyrs, i. 77, _note_.
Maize, the word, i. 151, _note_. Yearly royal expenditure of, in Tezcuco, 191, _note_. See _Indian corn_.
Manifesto to the Indians, i. 344, _note_.
Mankind, origin of, in America, i. 225, 228. Two great families of, in America, 230. See _Aborigines_.
Mantas, use and description of, iii. 140.
Mantles of feather-work. See _Feather-work_.