Superftition always connected with a defire of penetrating inte T Tapia, Chriftoval de, is fent from Spain to Mexico, to fuperfede Tobacco, that of Cuba the best flavoured of any in all America, iii, Toupinambos, account of their ferocious courage from Lery, ii. 481, Trade, free, opened between Spain and her colonies, iii. 350. In Travellers, ancient, character of their his third voyage, i. 182. writings, i. 45. Tucuman, and Rio de la Plata, account of those provinces, iii. 248. Tythes of Spanish America, how applied by the court of Spain, V Vaca de Caftro, Chriftoval, is fent from Spain to regulate the go- Valverde, father Vincent, his curious harangue to Atahualpa, Inca Vega, Garcilaso de la, character of his commentary on the Spa- Vegetables, their natural tendency to fertilize the foil where they Velasquez, Diego de, conquers the island of Cuba, i, 256. 314. His preparations for invading New Spain, ii. 234. His difficulty in chufing a commander for the expedition, 235. Appoints Fernando Cortes, 136. His motives to this choice, 238. Becomes fufpicious of Cortes, 239. Orders Cortes to be deprived of his commiffion, and arrested, 241, 242. Sends an armament to Mexico after Cortes, 333 Venegas. P. his character of the native Californians, ii. 466. Venereal disease, originally brought from America, ii. 82. Appears to be wearing out. 83. Its firft rapid progrefs, 461. Venezuela, hiftory of that fettlement, iii. 254. Venice, its origin as a maritime ftate, i. 38. Travels of Marco Polo. 44. Verd iflands, difcovered by the Portuguese, i. 66. Viceroys all the Spanish dominions in America subjected to two, iii. 271. A third lately established, 272. Their powers, ibid. A fourth established, 363. Villa Segnor, his account of the state of population in New Spain, ii. 435. His detail of the Spanish American revenue. 464. Viliefagna, Antonio. one of Cortes's foldiers, foments a mutiny among his troops, ii. 382. Is difcovered by Cortes, and hanged, 383, 384. Ulloa, Don Antonio de, his defcription of the characteristick features of the native Americans, ii. 454. His reafon for the Ame ricans not being fo fenfible of pain as the rest of mankind, 485. His account of the goods exported from Spain to America, with the duty on them, iii. 470. Volcanos, remarkable number of, in the northern parts of the globe difcovered by the Ruffians, ii. 453. Wafer, Lionel, his account of a peculiar race of diminutive Americans, ii. 74. Compared with fimilar productions in Africa, 75. War-fong of the native Americans, the fentiments and terms of, ii. 483. Women, the condition of, among the native Americans, ii. 97. Are not prolifick, I01. Are not permitted to join in their drunken feafts, 208. Nor to wear ornaments, 487. X Xerez, Francifco de, fecretary to Pizarro, the earliest writer on his Peruvian expedition, iii. 383. Ximenes, Cardinal, his regulations for the treatment of the Indians in the Spanish colonies, i. 190. Patronifes the attempt of Ferdinand Magellan, ii. 408. Y Yucatan, the province of, difcovered by Pinzon and Diaz de Solis. i. 240. Defcribed, 369. From whence that province derives its value, iii. 241. Policy of the court of Spain with refpe&t to, 243. Zarate, Don Auguftine, character of his Hiftory of the conqueft of Peru, iii.. 385. Zones, the earth how divided into, by the geography of the ancients, i. 29. By whom firft fo divided, 339. Zumaraga, Juan de, first bishop of Mexico, the deftroyer of all the ancient records of the Mexican empire. iii, $6. END OF THE THIRD VOLUME, ५ |