labor congress, 45. laborers for Yucatan, 294. lacquer—­Chiapa, 45, 361; —­Uruapang. lagoons, 276, 277, 290, 336.  Lake Chapala, 68; —­Patzcuaro, 68, 76. landslide, 181.  Lang,—­Charles B., viii, 115, 179, 184. leaf-water, 193.  Leal—­Manuel, Fernandez, ix.  Leandro, secretario Tamalin, 287.  Leon—­Governor Francisco, 45, 342.  Leyra—­Pablo, 246, 260, 263, 271. libation, 255. lightning, 183. limestone, 18, 44, 50, 52, 126, 217, 249, 262, 296, 306, 314, 363, 364, 373; —­erosion, 118; —­hills, 219. llano, 278, 281, 341, 363. la Llave, 277, 278.  Lopez—­Lieut.-Governor, 351, 381. lost at night, 167.  Lumholtz—­Charles, v., 79, 80, 83.  Lux—­Ernst, vii, 3, 10, 14, 159. lycopods, 154, 199.

macaws, 4, 340.  Macuilapa, 345.  Magdalena de los comales, 127. maguey, 60, 119. mai, 367. malacates, 59.  Malintzi, 188, 189. mangroves, 290. mantas, 128, 148.  Manuel, our arriero, 218, 219. mapa, 236, 330. mapachtli, 329. mapaho, 202, 207.  Marcelo—­Alejandro, 279.  Maria as a female name, 56. marimba, 42, 346.  Mariano, our mozo, 115, 119, 156. market—­Tehuantepec, 162; —­Oaxaca, 112.  Martinez—­Quirino, 249.  Martinez—­Silvano, 78, 80, 83. maskers, 71, 240, 243.  Mayas, 297, 304, 396, 397; —­stubbornness, 312.  Mazatecs—­costume, 234; —­houses, 233. measuring—­Mitla, 146; —­Ayutla, 149.  Medellin, 14. medical practice, 36.  Mendieta, 195.  Mercado—­Governor Aristeo, 78.  Merida, 295, 297, 301, 315, 355; —­expensive living, 298; —­carnival, 318, 321. mesquite, 97.  Mexicalcingo, 395.  Mexico—­steamer, 393, 394. miraculous cross, 6. mist, 22, 27.  Mitla—­ruins, 4; —­Mixes seen at, 13; —­festival, 17; —­fiesta, 142; —­work at, 144; —­ruins, 148.  Mixes, 112, 398; —­first veiw of, 13; —­tragedy, 18; —­land of, 22; —­life, 23; —­roads, 31.  Mixtec, 115, 139; —­boy, 397; —­language, 140; —­planter, 204. mogote, 78, 81. mole, 222. money—­Guatemalan, 51. monkey’s comb, 340.  Montezuma, 250, 260. moon influences young, 217. moonstone, 64.  Mora—­Senora, 278. moral=mulberry, 246, 259.  Morrison—­Stanton, 389. mosquitoes, 289. moss, 273; —­crimson, 214; —­gray, 232, 277; yellow, 199, 214. mounds, 116. moving stone, 349. mulada, 387. mule—­purchase, 15; —­accident, 33; —­trouble by, 44; —­trouble with, 52; —­gives out, 53; —­reported dead, 117. muleteer—­affectionate, 179. munecos, 246, 250, 258, 261, 268, 269.  Murcio—­Don, 369.  Murcio—­Guillermo, 129, 131, 136.  Museo Yucateco, 301. music—­of the Candelaria, 24; —­at Los Reyes, 91.

Nabor—­Don, 98. nacimiento, 195. nagual, 166. names of one river, 251.  Negrete, 95. los negritos, 82.  Nehuatzen, 84.  Nenton, 49, 52.  New Year—­celebration, 82; —­gifts, 339. night-blindness, 164. night-travel, 172. night-watch, 170.  Nochixtlan, 120. norther, 21, 22, 33, 158, 294, 326, 327, 393. nublina, 232, 233, 261, 272.

Oaxaca, 4, 6, 15, 112. obsidian, 240. ocellated turkey, 318.  Ocosingo, 375.  Ocotopec (Mixe), 153, 154, —­(Mixtec), 112. oleander, 174.