Darien, Isthmus of, crossed, i. 284. Colony there, 285, 340. Oviedo there, iii. 98.
Days, Aztec arrangement of, i. 127, 128. Division of civil, 138, _note_. Coincidences as to the signs of, 246.
Dead, burnt, i. 78, 218, _note_. Buried, 78, _note_. Coincidences as to the obsequies of the, 244, 245. Carried off in battle, ii. 124, 125. Spanish, buried, 139. Unburied during the siege, iv. 73, 87, 105. Buried, 108. See _Funeral ceremonies_.
Death, a penalty, i. 42. Judges punished with, 45. For crimes, 45. Inflicted on soldiers, 60. Two sons put to, by a Tezcucan prince, 60.
Deities, Mexican, i. 69-73. Days and festivals appropriated to, 69, 88. On unity and plurality of, 69, _note_. Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Mars, 70. Quetzalcoatl, the god of the air, 71. Penates, 75, 140. Tezcatlipoca, 89, ii. 326. See _Huitzilopochtli_, _Idols_, _Quetzalcoatl_, and _Tezcatlipoca_.
Delafield’s Antiquities, map in, i. 252, _note_.
Deluge, coincidences as to the, in the Old and the New World, i. 233.
Denon, on an Egyptian temple, i. 106, _note_.
De Roo, P., cited, i. 237, _note_, 238, _note_.
Devil, Mexican, i. 70, _note_, 95, _note_. His delusion of the Aztecs, 242, _note_, 243. Cortés possessed with the, ii. 33, _note_.
Diaz, Bernal, errors of, ii. 175, _note_. His way of life, iii. 22, _note_. His share of spoil, 75, _note_. Letter not signed by, 242, _note_. Account of, and of his writings, 274-277. Ravine crossed by, 335, _note_. Leaves his farm to accompany Cortés to Honduras, iv. 177, _note_. On the Christianity of Guatemozin and the prince of Tacuba, 185, _note_. On Cortés at Honduras, 201. His character of Cortés, 261-263.
Diaz, Juan, the licentiate, efforts of, to convert natives, i. 337, ii. 364. His conspiracy, ii. 65. Performs mass in the great temple, 334, iii. 17.
Dikes opened upon the Spaniards at Iztapalapan, iii. 287. See _Causeways_ and _Breaches_.
Discovery, progress of, by the beginning of the reign of Charles V., i. 284. Catholic and Protestant views as to, ii. 209, 210, _note_. Progress of, under Cortés, iv. 134, 155, 170, 232, 235.
Divine book, or Teoamoxtli, i. 122, _note_.
Dove, coincidences with Noah’s, i. 233, 234. On the topmast, 301.
Draught-cattle, want of, i. 158, 270, iii. 223.