Eduardo Galeano - The Memory of Fire Trilogy - Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

Mendoza, Pedro de, 152

Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro, 228

Meneses, Hernando de, 131

Menomenee Indians, 6

Metacom, 256

Mexico, 41, 63, 65, 103, 156, 203, 204, 228

Mexico City, 84, 95, 115, 123, 130, 142, 145, 146, 148, 154, 174, 202, 203, 236, 245, 260, 266, 271; see also Tenochtitlán

Mezquital, 189

Michael, St., 194

Michaelangelo, 62

Michmaloyan, 128

Michoacán, 132

Miguel, King, 117–18

Mina people, 233

Minas Gerais, 279

Mixco, 217

Moctezuma, Emperor, 54, 64, 65, 66–67, 68, 70, 142

Modoc Indians, 33

Mogrovejo de la Cerda, Juan de, 199–201

Molina, Alonso de, 81–82

Molucca Indians, 73–74

Montesinos, Antonio de, 57–58

More, Thomas, 61, 132

Morga, Antonio de, 218–19

Morgan, Henry, 247, 248, 251–52, 253–54

Moseten Indians, 10

Motocintle, 212

Motolinía, Toribio de, 95–96

Mujica, Martín de, 232

Muslims, 52–53, 62, 92–93, 217

Mystic Fort, 221

Nabía, Antonia, 155

Nahuanje, 170

Narváez, Pánfilo de, 82

Nasuk, 13

Nau, Jean David (El Olonés), 244–45, 247

Navajo Indians, 157

Navidad fort, 50

Ñeambiú, 19

Nebrija, Elio Antonio de, 50

Negro Committee, 262

Negro River, 9

New Amsterdam, 243

New Cádiz, 106

Newfoundland, 269

New Mexico, 259, 272

New York, 243

Nicaragua, 206, 250

Nicaragua, Chief, 75–76

Nivakle Indians, 13, 35–36

Nochistlán, Rock of, 102

Nooktas Indians, 27

Nueva Valencia del Rey, 134, 136

Núñez de Balboa, Vasco, 58, 59, 62–63

Núñez de Miranda, Antonio, 266–68, 271

Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Francisco, 208–9, 210–12

Núñez Vela, Blasco, 115

The Nun Lieutenant (Pérez de Montalbán), 214

Oaxaca, 17, 132, 237

Obatalá, 193

Obenga, 275

Ocaña, Diego de, 168–69

Océlotl, Martín, 128

Ochoa, Juan, 194–95

Ogum, 194

Ojeda, Alonso de, 50–51

Old Meanie, 36–37

Old Road Town, 256

Olinda, 232

Olonés, El, 244–45, 247

Omapacha, 182

Ona Indians, 36

Opechancanough, Chief, 191–92, 228

Ordaz, Diego de, 83

Orellana, Francisco de, 105

Origua, 170

Orinoco River, 38, 52, 83

Osborne, Sarah, 270

Oshún, 193

Our Lady of Guanajuato, 149–50

Ouro Prêto, 279

Oviedo: see Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo

Oxalá, 193

Oxley, Henry, 160

Ozama River, 51

Pachacamac, 28

Pacific Ocean, 59

Painala, 76

Palawiyang Indians, 37

Palmares, 175, 232, 241–42, 257, 258, 273–74, 275

Palos, 96

Panama, 58, 94, 111, 134, 168, 200, 253

Panama City, 167, 251

Pané, Ramón, 51

Pánuco, 132

Paraguay, 124, 125, 227

Paraguay River, 20

Paraíba River, 240

Paraná, 29

Paranapiacaba Mountains, 279

Parana River, 124

Paria, Gulf of, 28, 52

Parris, Samuel, 269–70

Pasto, 48

Patiño, Francisco, 231

Paul III, Pope, 98, 146

Paullo (Inca leader), 96

Pedrarias the Buried: See Arias de Avila, Pedro

Pedro, Maese, 115

Peña, Lorenzo de la, 161

Penn, William, 239

Pequot Indians, 221–22

Pérez de Montalbán, Juan, 214

Pérez de Morales, Captain, 265

Pernambuco, 242, 257, 273

Peru, 21, 34, 115, 116, 133, 134, 135, 158, 172, 181, 205, 206, 226

Peter, St., 59

Philip II, king of Spain, 110, 129, 131, 136, 137, 147, 156, 163, 174, 184, 228, 237

Philip III, king of Spain, 184, 185, 195–96

Philosophical Manifesto Against the Stray Comets (Sigüenza y Góngora), 261

Piaroa Indians, 83

Pichincha volcano, 229

Pinel, Juan, 111, 112

Pinola, 216

Pius V, Pope, 143

Pizarro, Francisco, 63, 81, 87–89, 90, 94, 96, 105, 107, 114

Pizarro, Gonzalo, 104–5, 108–9, 112, 115

Placentia, 269

Plate River, 104

Plymouth, England, 138

Plymouth, Massachusetts, 221, 256

Pocahontas, 191

Poma de Ayala, Guamán, 184–85

Ponce de León, Juan, 55, 56, 72

Popocatépetl volcano, 69, 83

Porres, Martín de, 222–23

Portilla, Juan de la, 161

Portobello, 168, 199, 251

Pôrto Calvo, 257, 274

Port Royal, 253

the Portuguese, 174, 232–33, 241, 242, 257–58, 261, 273, 276

Potosí, 110, 117, 120, 121, 153, 154, 164, 168, 172, 173, 186–89, 205, 224, 230, 248, 254

Powhatan, 191

Prieto, Juan, 117

Puebla, 240

Puerto Príncipe, 178

Puerto Rico, 55, 56

Puerto Viejo, 91

Pujilí, 271

Puná, 160

the Puritans, 220–21, 256, 270

Putapichun, Chief, 209–10

Quetzalcóatl, 65, 66, 67

Quetzaltenango, 77

Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco de, 175, 201–2

Quiché Indians, 12, 28, 40, 78

Quijo Indians, 151–52

Quillacinga Indians, 48–49

Quintero, 116

Quiroga, Vasco de, 132

Quito, 75, 89, 91, 92, 94, 100, 104, 151, 158, 167, 218, 229, 271

Ragueneau, Father, 233–34

Raleigh, Walter, 162–63

Rebelo, Gonçalo, 242

Recife, 175, 232, 242, 257, 273, 275

Redbeard (pirate), 93

Regla, 277

Remedios, 244, 262–66

Repocura, 210, 211

Reyes, Gaspar de los, 149

Ribera, Alonso de, 176–77

Rímac River, 199

Riobamba, 91, 94

Rio de Janeiro, 273

Rio Grande do Norte, 273

Rio Grande Valley, 272

Ripa, Cesare, 176

Robles, Martín de, 136

Rodrigo, Martín, 115

Rojas, Alonso de, 229

Rolfe, John, 190–91

Rome, 47, 98, 176

Rosales, Floriana, 164–66

Royal Africa Company, 252, 261

Ruiz, Marcos, 249–50

Ruiz, Pedro, 101

Rumiñahui, General, 92

Sacasa, 170

Sahagún, Bernardino de, 155–56, 237

Ste. Marie des Hurons, 233

St. Kitts, 256

St. Thomas Island, 280

Salamanca, 50

Salazar, Bernardo de, 206

Salazar, Diego de, 56

Salcedo (soldier), 55–56

Salem Village, 269

Salvador (heroic slave), 179

Samayac, 204

Sánchez, Juan, 101

Sánchez, Sebastian, 247–48

Sánchez Farfán, Julio, 164, 165–66

Sánchez Gallque, Andres, 168

San Francisco monastery, 203, 205

San Juan Atitlán, 249

San Lorenzo, 166

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, 82, 197

San Marcos de Arica, 205

San Miguel, Gulf of, 59

San Miguel de Nepantla, 238, 239

San Miguel de Tucumán, 224

San Pablo, 226

San Pedro de Omapacha, 182

San Pedro River, 117

Santa Catarina, 189

Santa Cruz Island, 49

Santa Fe, 259, 272

Santa Lucía, 101

Santa María de Guadalupe, 264, 265

Santa María del Darién, 60

Santa Marta, 81, 99, 169, 170

Santiago, apostle, 150–51, 185

Santiago, Miguel de, 271

Santiago de Chile, 101, 127, 155, 176, 180, 232

Santiago de la Vega, 238

Santiago Papasquiaro, 189

Santo Domingo, 51, 57, 72, 81, 84, 94, 98, 138, 140

Sáo Paulo, 273, 279

São Salvador de Bahia, 225, 276

Sarmiento, Juan, 149

Scorpion Islands, 78

Sebastian, St., 151

Segura de la Frontera, 69

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 123–24

Serra da Barriga, 241

Serra de Leguízamo, Mancio, 160

Serra Dois Irmãos, 275

Serrana Island, 85

Serrano, Pedro, 85–87, 93

Seville, 45, 73, 93, 163, 172, 178, 179, 197, 199, 201, 262

Shakespeare, William, 153, 182–83

Shangó, 194, 277

Shipaiás Indians, 25

Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 261

Silva, José Asunción, 192

Simon, St., 146, 159

Sinaloa, 97

Simú River, 59

Sioux Indians, 41–42