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Rh Charms, 50, 171.

Costumes, see Costumes, Indian.

Courtesy, 48.

Dances of, 92-5.

Drinks, 31, 92, 194.

Dulness when civilized, 237.

Easter customs and Holy Week, 138, 143.

Family organization, 92.

Saints, ib.

Food, 10, 19, 48, 164, 174, 224.

Habit of firing rockets, 74.

Holidays, (see also Easter, supra).

Hostility to excavations, 86.

Houses, 51.

and gardens, 91.

Ice collection by, 33, 34.

Labour, difficulties connected with, (see Carriers, supra), 107, 211, at Rabinal, 105.

Methods of digging, introduction of wheel-barrows, 200-1.

Music, 49, 59, 94, 96.

Objection to being photographed, and reasons, 49.

Pilgrims, ceremonies of, 58, at prayer, 88, journey of, to the Black Christ at Esquipulas, 49.

Religion, 58, 88, 136-7, 186.

Reverence for localities, 168.

Saints, 92.

Schoolboys and schoolmasters, 55.

Small communities, sanitary advantages of, 98, 102.

Sunday-night customs, San Antonio, 53-4.

Washerwomen, 10, 20.

Weapons, present day, 237.

Wedding ceremonies at Coban bridge (pre-Christian), 97-8.

Women of Santa Maria, 31.

dress of, see Costumes, Enaguas, and Huipils.

dulness of their life, 58.

unattractiveness of, 31.

weaving of, 56.

Worship, see Baptism, Pilgrims, &c.

Indians of British Honduras and Yucatan, 189-90, of Guatemala, 10, of Santa Cruz, Yucatan, their status akin to slavery, 198.

Indigo trade, 49.

Insects, troublesome, at Copan, 122, at Laguna, 214, on the river Usumacinta, 215, at Yaxché, 178.

Insects:—

Ants, 102, 109, 122.

Parasol, 148.

Bees, 27, 147.

Centipedes, 123.

Cockroaches, ib.

Coloradillos, 122.

Fireflies, 77.

Flies, passim.

Garrapatas (Ticks), 122.

Mosquitos, 147, 150, 215, 226.

Scorpions, 123, 150.

Spiders, 123.

Wasps, 109.

Irrigation at Panajachél, 57, at San Gerónimo, 107.

Irving, Washington, cited on Columbus and the Maya Indians, 193.

Itzá Indians, 70, their former headquarters, 245, missionary effort among, 246-9, buildings of, 249, migration and decay of, ib.

Iximché or Guatemala, 60, 66, 67, 69, 70.

Ixkún, ruins at, 174-7, cues or temples at, 177, carved stela at, 243.

Izalco, Volcano, see Volcan.

Izamal, see Yzamal.

JAGUARS, use made of skulls of, 236.

Jamet y Sastre, Messrs., 168, 215, 235.

Jasmin, yellow, 23.

Jays, blue and grey, 48, 110, 118, 120.

Jesuit missions and Caribs, 188.

Jicacques, see Lacandones.

Jícaro, El, visit of the Jefe Politico, 111, writer's journey resumed through parched and waterless ground, 112.

Jocotan, 115.

Joyabaj, 80.