consist onely of a hundred _Spaniards_, and three hundred _Indian_ Inhabitants, whose chiefe riches come by gardening, and sending daily in their _Canoa's_ Herbes and Salets to _Mexico_. Some wealth likewise they get by their Cedar trees which grow there, and are ready timber for the buildings of _Mexico_. Yet now also are these Cedars much decayed by the _Spaniards_, who have wasted and spoiled them in their too too sumptuous buildings. _Cortez_ onely was accused by _Pamfilo de Narvaez_, for that hee had spent seven thousand beames of Cedar trees in the worke of his owne house. Gardens there were in _Tezcuco_ formerly, that had a thousand Cedar trees for walls and circuite, some of them of a hundred and twenty foot long, and twelve foot in compasse from end to end; but now that Garden that hath fifty Cedar trees about it, is much regarded. At the end of this plain wee passed through _Mexicalcinco_, which formerly was a great Town, but now not of above an hundred Inhabitants, and from thence to _Guetlavac_, a petty Village, yet most pleasant for the shade of many fruit trees, Gardens, and stately houses which for their recreation some Citizens of _Mexico_ have built there, being at the foot of the Cawsey which from this Town through the Lake reacheth about five _English_ miles to _Mexico_. And thus upon the third day of _October_, 1625. wee entred into that famous and gallant City, yet not abiding in it, but onely passing through it, till we came to a house of recreation, standing among the Gardens in the way to _Chapultepec_, named Saint _Jacintho_, belonging to the Dominicans of _Manila_ in the _East-India's_, (whither our course was intended) where wee were stately entertained, and abode till after _Candlemasse_ day, the time of our second shipping at _Acoapulco_ (80 leagues from Manila) by the South-Sea to _Manila_ the chief City of the Islands named _Philippinas_. CHAP. XII. _Shewing some particulars of the great and famous City of_ Mexico _in former times, with a true description of it now; and of the State and condition of it the yeare_ 1625.