[117] This is the substance of Tapia’s own account. _Relacion_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, ii. 556-7. Others differ somewhat in the number of Indians who arrive in the canoe, in the mode of addressing Tapia, and other points. According to Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 19, some soldiers out hunting report the approach of the canoe, whereupon Cortés sends Tapia to ascertain its object. Seven Indians of Cozumel land, and, on seeing the Spaniards advance, are about to flee in alarm, but one of them reassures the rest, and calls out, ‘Dios, y Santa María, y Sevilla.’ While he is embraced by Tapia, a soldier rushes to announce the news to Cortés. According to Gomara, _Hist. Mex._, 20, it is meal-time and first Sunday in Lent when the news of a canoe with four Indians is brought. The fleet had been prevented by a storm from sailing on the previous day. [118] This was a common form of Maya hair-dress. Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 19, and some others describe him as shorn like a slave; but this man appears to have risen from that condition. He gives him an extra pair of sandals, hanging at the waist, a dilapidated mantle or cloth—called a net by Herrera—wherein is tied a thumbed prayer-book, and upon the shoulder he places an oar. This oar is brought into camp by almost every writer, regardless of the fact that it did not belong to him and could no longer be of use. Gomara, _Hist. Mex._, 20, gives him bow and arrows. Las Casas, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 461, remarks that in the prayer-book was kept an account of time, which marked this day as a Wednesday, while it really was Sunday. [119] See _Hist. Cent. Am._, i. 350, this series. [120] Aguilar intimated another reason why Guerrero remained, that he had taken part in the fights against Córdoba and Grijalva at Potonchan, which is very doubtful. Then it is said that his face was tattooed and his lips turned down, and when Aguilar besought him to go the children clung to him, and the wife first begged, and then threatened, to make Aguilar desist. _Cogolludo_, _Hist. Yucathan_, 23; _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 18-19; _Torquemada_, i. 370.