CHAPTER 11. — Discontent at not finding gold — Torture of Guatemozin — Results of the fall of the capital — Mission from Michoacan — Rebuilding of the capital — Letters to the King — Intrigues against Coréz — Fonseca — Narvaez — Tapia — Charles V. protects Cortéz and confirms his acts,80
CHAPTER 12. — Cortéz commissioned by the Emperor — Velasques — his death — Mexico rebuilt — Immigration — Repartimientos of Indians — Honduras — Guatemozin — Mariana — Cortéz accused — ordered to Spain for trial — his reception, honors and titles — he marries — his return to Mexico — resides at Tezcoco — Expeditions of Cortéz — California — Quivara — returns to Spain — death — Where are his bones? 84
CHAPTER 13. — Archbishop Zumarraga's destruction of Mexican monuments, writings, documents — Mr. Gallatin's opinion of them — Traditions — two sources of accurate knowledge — Speculations on antiquity — Aztecs — Toltecs — Nahuatlacs — Acolhuans, &c. — Aztecs emigrate from Aztlan — settle in Anahuac — Tables of emigration of the original tribes — Other tribes in the empire,92
CHAPTER 14. — Difficulty of estimating the civilization of the Aztecs — Nations in Yucatan — Value of contemporary history — The Aztec monarchy — elective — Royal style in Tenochtitlan — Montezuma's way of life — Despotic power of the Emperor over life and law — Theft — intemperance — marriage — slavery — war — Military system and hospitals — Coin — Revenues — Aztec mythology — Image of Teoyaomiqui — Teocalli — Two kinds of sacrifice — Why the Aztecs sacrificed their prisoners — Common Sacrifice — Gladitorial Sacrifice — Sacrificial Stone — Aztec Calendar — week, month, year, cycle — Procession of the New Fire — Astronomical Science — Aztec Calendar — Tables,99
BOOK II.
CHAPTER 1. — Colonial system — Early grants of power to rulers in Mexico by the Emperor Charles V . — Abuse of it — Council of the Indies — Laws — Royal audiences — Cabildos — Fueros — Relative positions of Spaniards and Creoles — Scheme of Spanish colonial trade — Restrictions on trade — Alcabala — Taxes — Papal Bulls — Bulls de Cruzada — de Defuntos — of Composition — Power of the Church — its property — Inquisition — The acts of the Inquisition — Repartimientos — Indians — Agriculturists — Miners — Mita — Excuses for maladministration,127
CHAPTER 2. — Founding of the Viceroyalty of New Spain — New Audiencia — Fuenleal — Mendoza — Early acts of the first Viceroy — Coinage — Rebellion in Jalisco — Viceroy suppresses it — Council of the Indies on Repartimientos — Indian Servitude — Quivara — Expeditions of Coronado and Alarcon — Pest in 1546 — Revolution — Council of Bishops — Mines — Zapotecs revolt — Mendoza removed to Peru,139
CHAPTER 3. — Velasco endeavors to ameliorate the condition of the Indians — University of Mexico established — Inundation — Military colonization — Philip II — Florida — Intrigues against Velasco — Philipine Isles — Death of Velasco — Marques de Falces — Baptism of the grand-children of Cortéz — Conspiracy against the Marques del Valle — his arrest — execution of his friends — Marques de Falces — charges against him — his fall — Errors of Philip II. — Fall of Muñoz and his return — Vindication of the Viceroy,148
CHAPTER 4. — Almanza Viceroy — Chichimecas revolt — Jesuits — Inquisition — Pestilence — No Indian tribute exacted — Almanza departs — Xuares Viceroy — Weak Administration — Increase of commerce — Pedro Moya de Contreras Viceroy — Reforms under a new Viceroy — His power as Viceroy and Inquisitor — Zuñiga Viceroy — Treasure — Piracy — Cavendish — Drake captures a galeon — Zuñiga and the Audiencia of Guadalajara — His deposition from power,160}}
