Albuquerque, Rodrigo, his barbarous treatment of the Alcavala, in the Spanish customs, the term explained, iii. 490. Alexander the Great, his political character, i. 20. His Alexander VI. Pope, grants to Ferdinand and Ifabella Almagro, Diego de, his birth and character, iii. 3. Almagro the fon, affords refuge to his father's follow- Almajorifafgo, in the Spanish American customs, the Alvarado, Alonzo, is fent from Lima, by Francis Pi- zarro, with a body of Spaniards to relieve his bro- Alvarado, Pedro de, is left by Cortes to command at Mexico, Mexico, while he marched against Narvaez, ii. 357- Amazons, a community of, faid to exift in South Ame- America, the continent of, difcovered by Christopher Kk 3 country country defcribed, 467. Bones of large extinct fpecies of animals difcovered under ground near the banks of the Ohio, 469. Why European animals degenerate there, 470. Suppofed to have undergone a convulfive feparation from Afia, 475. Causes of the depopulation of, traced, iii. 288. This depopulation not the refult of any intentional fyftem of policy, 275. Nor the refult of religion, 278. Number of Indian natives ftill remaining in Mexico and Peru, 280. All the Spanish dominions there, fubjected to two viceroys, 284. Its third viceroyalty lately established, 285. See Mexico, Peru, Certes, Pizarro, &c. Americans, native, in Spanish America, their bodily conftitution and complexion, ii. 60. Their ftrength and abilities, 62. Their infenfibility with regard to their women, 64. No deformities in their frame, 71. This circumftance accounted for, 72. Uniformity of their colour, 74. A peculiar_race of, defcribed, 77. The Efquimaux, 80. Patagonians, 81. The exiftence of Patagonian giants yet remaining to be decided, 83. Their difeafes, 84. The venereal difeafe, peculiarly theirs, 86. The powers and qualities of their minds, 88. Are only folicitous to fupply immediate wants, 90. The art of computation, fcarcely known to them, 91. Have no abstract ideas, 93. The North Americans much more intelligent than thofe of the South, 95. Their averfion to labour, 97. Their focial ftate, 100. Domestic union, 101. The women, 103. Their women not prolific, 106. Their parental affection and filial duty, 108. Their modes of fubfiftence, 111. Fishing, 112. Hunting, 114. Agriculture, 117. The various objects of their culture, ilid. Two principal causes of the defects of their agriculture, 122. Their want of tame animals, ibid. Their want of useful metals, 125. Their political inftitutions, 128. Were divided into small independent communities, ibid. Unacquainted quainted with the idea of property, 130. Their high fenfe of equality and independence, 132. Their ideas of fubordination imperfect, 133. To what tribes thefe defcriptions apply, 136. Some exceptions, 138. Florida, 139. The Natchez, ibid. The islands, 141. In Bogota, ibid. Inquiry into the caufes of thefe irregularities, 143. Their art of war, 147. Their motives to hoftility, 148. Causes of their ferocity, 149. Perpetuity of their animofities, 152. Their modes of conducting war, 153. Are not deftitute of courage and fortitude, 156. Incapable of military difcipline, 158. "Their treatment of prifoners, 159. Their fortitude under torture, 161. Never eat human flesh but to gratify revenge, 165. How the South Americans treated their prifoners, 166. Their military education, 168. Strange method of chufing a captain, among the Indians on the banks of the Orinoco, ibid. Their numbers wafted by continual wars, 172. Their tribes now recruit their numbers by adopting prisoners, 173. Are never formidable in war, to more polifhed nations, 175. Their arts, drefs, and ornaments, 176. Their habitations, 180. Their arms, 184. Their domeftic utenfils, 185. Conftruction of their canoes, 186. The liftleffness with which they apply to labour, 187. Their religion, 190. Some tribes altogether deftitute of any, 193. Remarkable diverfity in their religious notions, 198. Their ideas of the immortality of the foul, 202. Their modes of burial, 203. Why their phyficians pretend to be conjurors, 206. Their love of dancing, 210. Their immoderate paffion for gaming, 214. Are extremely addicted to drunkennefs, 216. Put their aged and incurable to death, 221. General eftimate of their character, 222. Their intellectual powers, 223. Their political talents, 224. Powers of affection, 227. Hardness of heart, 228. Their infenfibility, 229. Taciturnity, 231. Their cunning, 232. Their Kk 4 Their virtues, 234. Their fpirit of independence, Amerigo Vespucci, publifhes the firft written account Andes, ftupendous height and extent of that range of Animals, large, very few found in America at its first Antients, caule of the imperfection of the art of navi- Arabians peculiarly attached to the ftudy of geogra- Argonauts, the expedition of, why fo famous among Arithmetic, or computation, the art of, hardly known Afcolino, father, his extraordinary miffion to the prince Afiatic |