Cortés, Don Martin, iii. 25. Exertions of, for his son, iv. 142. Death of, 212.
Cortés, Don Martin, son of Cortés by his second marriage, iv. 238. Wrecked, 239. Provision for, 242. Present at his father’s death, 246. Persecuted, 249.
Cortés, Don Martin, son of Marina, i. 362, iv. 192, 250.
Cotton mail, or escaupil, or jackets quilted with cotton, i. 58, 324, 351, ii. 134, 135.
Cottons, given to Cortés, i. 368, ii. 17, 50.
Council, of finance, i. 184. Of justice, 184. Of state, 184. Of war, 184. Of music, 185.
Council of the Indies, i. 282. Ordinances by the, iii. 355, iv. 140. Reception of Cortés by the, iv. 238.
Courts, Aztec, i. 43-47. Merchants allowed to have, 164. At the Mexican market, ii. 318.
Cross, the, a common symbol of worship, i. 335, _note_. See _Crosses_.
Crosses of stone, at Palenque, i. 239. Cozumel, 239, _note_. Frequency of, 239, ii. 90, and _note_. Antiquity and generality of, among pagans, 241. In Yucatan, 292. In Cozumel, 334. At Naulinco, ii. 90.
On raising, at Tlatlanquitepec, or Cocotlan, 96. At Tlascala, 173, 174. Upon Quetzalcoatl’s temple at Cholula, 217. At Mexico, 328, iii. 16. Pulled down, iii. 132. Cruz del Marques, 336.
Cuba, i. 287. Expeditions from, to Yucatan, 289-295. Cortés in, 303-307. Propositions in the army to return to, ii. 20, 25, 27. Cortés’ emissaries land at, 64. Las Casas’ labors in, 73. Cortés’ apprehensions from, 220. Sailing of Narvaez’s fleet from, iii. 33. Desire of troops to return to, 212, 357. Return of some to, 236. Cortés driven to, iv. 201. See _St. Jago de Cuba_, and _Velasquez_.
Cuernavaca, or Quauhnahuac, capture of, iii. 332-336. Asks aid, iv. 61. Cortés’ residence at, 230. Remarks on, 230.
Cuicuitzca, made cacique of Tezcuco, ii. 371, _note_, iii. 264. Put to death, iii. 265.
Cuitlahua, lord of Iztapalapan, ii. 236. Interview of, with Cortés, 242. Accompanies Montezuma, 251. Released, iii. 96, 218. Supplies Montezuma’s place, 97, 121, _note_. Arouses the Aztecs for the battle of Otumba, 195, 218. Notice of, 217. Dies of smallpox, 235, 246. Succeeded by Guatemozin, 249.
Cycles, Aztec, i. 74, 127, _note_, 129. Persian, 127, _note_. Etruscan 128, _note_. Wheels of, 132, _note_. Of the lunar reckoning by the priests, 132, _note_. Analogies respecting, in the Old and the New World, 232, 246.