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List of Illustrations
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| 174. | Sketching the Spaniards. See the Codex Mendoza, p.71 (Kingsborough). |
| 174. | Sketch of an officer's charger. Codex Baranda, p. 3A. |
| 174. | A trooper feeding the horses. Lienzo di Tlaxcala, p. 28. |
| 175. | A mounted man at a canter, holding up a cross. Codex Telleriano-Remensis, p. 44. |
| 175. | A gun in action. Lienzo di Tlaxcala, p. 13. |
| 177. | Scorpion and centipedes. Codices Zouche, p.27; Vaticanus B, pp.15,95. |
| 177. | A stinging insect. Codex Borgia, p. 27. Oviedo (Purchas, p. 164) describes such a creature as "a little mischievous worm, which we may number among the kindes of Fleas." |
| 178. | Posthumous portrait of Montezuma in his youth as an army officer. His face is painted, the upper half yellow, the lower half red. Codex Vaticanus A, p. 128 (Kingsborough). |
| 180. | The heron standard of Tlaxcala. Lienzo di Tlaxcala, p. 22. |
| 181. | Quetzalcoatl. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, p. 30. |
| 182. | One of the portents, a strange light towards the East, seen before the arrival of the Spaniards. Codex Vaticanus, A, p. 133. |
| 182. | Short-eared owls (Asio flammeus). The favourite birds of Mictlantecutli, god of death: sinister birds. See p. 213, and Vol. II. p. 12, and the Codices Vaticanus B, p. 91; Bologna, p. 12; and Borgia, p. 18. |
| 183. | A sacrificed quetzal (Pharomocrus mocinno). See pp. 100, 363, and notes to pp. 39, 326, and the Codex Vienna, p. 42. |
| 185. | Montezuma (or, to give him his full name, Montecuzoma Xocoyotzin) offering incense to Quetzalcoatl. The Emperor wears the xiuitzontli, the royal crown of turquoise, while his attitude is one of the stereotyped censing attitudes to be found in almost any of the Codices. His vision of the god—in the rather uncanny mask of Eecatl—was suggested by Acosta (Purchas, p. 284) who says that the gods themselves whom he worshipped "told Montezuma these heavy tidings of the ruine of his Kingdome and tormented him by visions wherewith he remained so melancholy and troubled as he was void of judgement." Of Quetzalcoatl the same chronicler says (p. 315), "This Idoll had the form of a man and many toyes of gold upon the legges; with a thousand other foolish inventions whereof all had their significations." See p. 289 and the Codex Borgia, p. 51, and Mexican Archaeology, Joyce, Ch. II. |
| 190. | A homily by father Olmedo. The improvised pulpit is a petaca, a chest for holding grain. In his congregation are both priests and warriors with striped faces and carved animal-helmets. |
| 198. | Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) in flight. |
| 198. | Turkeys (Meleagris ocellata, with the breast brush of gallopavo). |
| 199. | Aloe (Agave atrovietus). |
| 199. | Aztec paroquet (Conurus aztec) in flight. |
| 199. | Orchid (Sobralia macracantha). |
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