INDEX.

Velafqv.ez, Diego de , conquers the ifland of Cuba , i. 232.313. His preparations for invading New Spain, ii,209. His difficulty in duffing a commander for theexpedition, 210. Appoints Fernando Cortes, 211.His motives to this choice, 213. Becomes fufpiciousof Cortes, 214.. Orders Cortes to be deprived of hiscommiffion, and arrefted, 213, 216. Sends an arma-ment to Mexico after Cortes, 293.

Venegas , P. his character of the native Californians, ii.411.

Venereal difeafe, originally brought from America, ii. 73.Appears to be wearing out, 74. Its firft rapid progrefs,

ii. 407-

Venezuela , hiftory of that fettlement, iii. 233.

Venice , its origin as a maritime ftate, i. 36. Travels ofMarco Polo , 40.

Verd, iflands difcovered by the Portuguefe, i. 60.Viceroys , all the Spanifh dominions in America fubjedtedto two, iii. 248. A third lately eltablilhed, ibid.Their powers, 249. A fourth eltablilhed, 328.

Villa Segnor, his account of the Hate of population in NewSpain, iii. 381. His detail of the Spanilh - Americanrevenue, 408.

Villefagna Antonio, one of Cortes’s foldiers, foments amutiny among his troops, ii. 340. Is difcovered byCortes, and hanged, 341.

Ulloa , Don Antonio de , his defcription of the charadter-iltic features of the native Americans, ii. 402. Hisreafon for the Americans not being fo fenfible of painas the reft of mankind, 423. His account of the goodsexported from Spain to America, with the duty en them,

iii. 412.

Volcanoes , remarkable number of, in the northern parts ofthe globe difcovered by the Ruffians, ii. 397.