_Herrera_ (_Dec. III., Lib. 4, Cap. 5_) having the original reports before his eyes, represents this scene as follows: “Multitudes of Indians flocked along the ways, astonished to see the beards and the dressing of the Spaniards. The chief person they met was Dirianjeu, the warlike cacique, who came attended by five hundred men and seventeen women, covered with gold plates, all drawn up in order, but without arms and with ten banners and trumpets, after their fashion. When they came near, the banners were displayed and the cacique touched Gonzales’ hand, as did all the five hundred, everyone giving him a turkey. Yet each of the women gave him twenty axes of gold (veinte hachas de oro) fourteen carats fine, each weighing eighteen pesos and some more.” We find in _Oviedo_ (_Gonzalo Fernandez de_), _Historia gen. y nat. de las Indias_, at the end of Vol. IV., five folio quarto pages with illustrations referring to the chapter he wrote on Nicaragua, and we learn from his text that he made the sketches himself during his sojourn in Nicaragua (1524). They represent views of the volcano of Masaya, gymnastic sports of the Indians, a plan of the town of Tecoatega, and three Indian arms, an _estorica_, a _porra_ and an _alabarda_. Each of the drawings is provided with a number which correctly corresponds to that written in the text, except those three drawings of the arms, for which we could not find the text. Upon closer examination we discovered a suggestion made (on page 81) that some ancient copyist or editor must have revised Oviedo’s original manuscript, who was supposed to have dropped the inscription to which the drawings of the three arms belong, perhaps, only on account of the illegibility of Oviedo’s handwriting. On the other hand, we cannot help expressing our doubts as to the fact that these three kinds of arms should have been in use with the Nicoyans or Nicaraguans. Notwithstanding we give the cut of the alabarda, which has the shape of a genuine mediæval battle-axe. Footnote 20: Sahagun (Bernardino de), Historia de la N. España, Ed. Carlos M. de Bustamante, 3 Vol., Mexico, 1830. Footnote 21: The following notice of three prehistoric nails is given for what it is worth. Torquemada, Lib. VI., Cap. 23: Under the reign of Nezahualpilli of Tezcuco, the statue of the God of Rain, Tlaloc, having been found to be timeworn and corroded, a new one was made and located on the mountain of Matlalcueye, the ancient site of this statue. “When this idol of Tlaloc was replaced by the new one, it happened that one of its arms broke off. They put it on again and fastened it with three gold nails. Later, when the new faith was introduced in their countries, this diabolical image was brought down from the hills, at the time of the first Bishop Zummaraga, and was broken to pieces in his presence, but not before removing the three gold nails spoken of.” Footnote 22: