Here _Cortez_ sent Articles of Peace to _Taxmarus_ the King of the Countrey, but he sleighting his proffer, came down upon him into the Field with forty thousand Men, drawn from the City _Potanchanum_, which contain’d above twenty thousand Houses, all built of Stone: And indeed the _Spaniards_ had here seen their last day, had not _Cortez_ drawn by a seeming advantage the Enemies under his Canon, and sent his small Party of Horse to attend the motion of the Rear; when so soon as they had fir’d their Canon, making great Execution, the Front routed, and the Rear terrifi’d with the noise and smoke of the Guns, they also broke, being at the same instant Charg’d with the Horse, which were so terrible to them that never saw Horses, nor such Service on Horseback before, that in a short time the whole Body of so great an Army was utterly dissipated, and the triumphing Conquerors took possession of the empty City _Potanchanum_, where Solacing, they staid a whole Moneth. Then from hence they Sail’d to _Colvaca_, where, upon the request of the Natives, they settled a Colony. Amongst the Presents which were there given to the _Spaniards_, were some of their own Volumes, Books, whose Leaves were made of the innermost Rind of a Tree, and a kind of Paste, made of their Meal, glew’d together; the Characters stood at some distance one after another, rang’d like our _Christ-Cross Row_, or _A_, _B_, _C_. Here _Cortez_ was amaz’d to behold their stately Temples, the Floors whereof were cover’d with Embroyder’d Tapestry, beset with Precious Stones, to which great multitudes flock’d, being very zealous to perform their Devotions. When their Seed is put into the Ground, or come to its full growth, they offer young Children to their _Zemez_, richly Cloth’d, having been fatten’d some Weeks before: When they want Children they kill their Slaves, and in default of them, they pacifie them with Dogs. [Sidenote: Strange Sacrifices.] The _Victims_ that go to be Sacrific’d, they Worship with all Adoration, Bowing and Congying before them. [Sidenote: Strange Idol-Worship.] Their Zeal in this their Idol-Worship may appear from a strange Custom, observ’d by them when they enter their Temple, _viz._ they either draw Blood out of their Tongues, Lips, Ears, Breast, Knees, or Palm of their Hands, which they throw into the Air, supposing thereby to be pardon’d by their indulgent Gods. [Sidenote: _Zempoal_, a City.]