Atacama Desert 74
Atahualpa (Inca leader) 67–72, 92
Atlantic Ocean 19, 126
Atondo y Antillón, Isidro 145
Aucilla River 97
audiencia 183 g
Aute 83
Ávila, Pedro Arias de 46
Ayllón, Lucas Vásquez de 92
Azores 2, 3, 12, 19, 30
Aztec Empire and Indians 10, 53,
54, 173
calendar stone of 57
and Hernán Cortés 56–60
language of 175
Mayan Indians 51
Moctezuma (Montezuma) 56,
58,58–60, 87, 133
oral history of 53
religious prophecies of 56
slaughter of 60
and slavery 179
and smallpox 61
Tenochtitlán xvi, 56–62
tribute to 57–58
BBahamas 4, 28, 47
Bahia 40
Baja California 64, 123, 128,
145–148, 154
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de 9, 43–46,
45, 46 m,65, 92
Barbados 6
Bar celona, Spain 3–5, 8, 30
Barroto, Juan Enríquez 142, 144
Bastidas, Rodrigo de 43
Bates, Henry 172
Bay of Smokes 120–121
Becerra, Diego de 64
Behaim, Martin 18
Beltrán, Bernardino 133
Benalcázar, Sebastián de 72, 73m,
76
Bering, Vitus 157, 160, 161
Bering Sea 157
Bering Strait 161
Berkeley, California xiv
Bermejo, Juan Rodríguez 27
berries 179
Bible 18, 19, 70
Biedma, Luis Hernández de 93,
104
Biedma, Manuel de 79
Bigotes 115
Bingham, Hiram xv, 68
Birú 46
bison. Seebuffalo
Blades, Ruben xiii
Bligh, William 160
Bobadilla, Francisco de 35
Boca del Sierpe 34
Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco
158, 159m,160, 164, 166,167,
168
body paint 28
Bogotá 74
Bolivia 68,74, 90, 175
Bonaparte, Napolean 173–174
Bonilla, Francisco Leyva de
134–135
books 23
Botany Bay, Australia 162
Bounty, H.M.S. (ship) 160
Brazil 40, 41, 43, 90, 174, 180
brigantines 103, 104, 183g
Britain 163, 166,167, 173, 181m.
See alsoEngland
Broughton, William 165
buccaneer 183g
buffalo 87,87–88,106, 178, 178
attempts to tame 136
Seven Cities of Cíbola 107
drives 88
hunting of 117
burial chamber 99
Buscando AmericaxiiiC
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez xvi,
10, 81–85, 89, 90m,93, 103
onbison 87, 88
and Seven Cities of Cíbola
106, 107, 107
death of 91
imprisonment of 91
as medicine man 85, 86, 89
in Narváez expedition 81–85
and Native Americans 84–86,
91
in South America 89–91
survival of 84Cabo de lodo (Cape of Mud) 142
Cabot, John 12, 49
Cabot, Sebastian 49
Caboto, Giovanni. SeeCabot, John
Cabral, Pedro Álvares 40
Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez 120–124,
122 m,128, 129, 149
cacica 98, 99
cacique 183g
Cadiz 30, 37
Cajamarca 69, 70, 71
calendars 51, 57
California xvi. See alsoMonterey,
California; San Francisco, Cali-
fornia
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
120–124
charting of coastal 120–131
Sir Francis Drake 126–128
early exploration of 120
first expedition to Monterey
149–151
Father Eusebio Kino 145, 146
missions in 152–153, 174
myth of the island of 147,
148, 148
Gaspar de Portolá 149–151
routes of expeditions in,
1769–1793 150m
Sebastián Vizcaíno 128–131
Caliquen 96
Calusa Indians 49, 52
Campeche 55
Canada 141, 175
Canary Islands 12, 17, 19, 22, 25,
27, 179
cannibal 6, 49
cannons 56, 143
canoes 6,37, 95,103, 175
canyon 183g
Cape Fear, North Carolina 92
Cape Flattery 160, 161
Cape Foul Weather 160
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
41
Cape of Good Hope 13
Cape Prince of Wales 161
Cape Verde Islands 40
“capitulations” 26
caravel 15,17, 26, 30, 183g
Car avjal, Gaspar de 77Index B 195