For their seruice in the kitchin they haue a ponde of water that is filled once a yéere, which is brought by conduct from the pryncipal fountayne. All the residue of the foresayde circuite serueth for places to bréede foule, with gardens of hearbes and swéete trees, with Roses and floures for the Altars. Such, so great & straunge was this temple of _Mexico_, for the seruice of the Diuell who had deceiued those simple _Indians_. There dothe reside in the same temple continually fiue thousand persons, and all they are lodged and haue theyr liuing there, for that tëple is maruellous riche, & hath diuers townes onely for their maintenaunce and reparation, and are bounde to sustayne the same alwayes on foote. They doe sowe corne, and maintayne all those fiue thousande persons with bread, fruyte, flesh, fishe, and firewoodde as much as they néede, for they spende more fire woodde than is spent in the kings courte: these persons doe liue at their hartes ease, as seruauntes and vassals vnto the Goddes. _Mutezuma_ brought _Cortes_ to this temple, bicause his men shoulde sée the same, and to enforme them of his religion and holinesse, wherof I will speake in an other place, being the most straunge and cruellest that euer was heard off. The Idols of Mexico. The Gods of _Mexico_, were two thousand in number, as the _Indians_ reported, the chiefest were _Vitcilopuchtli_ and _Tezcatlipuca_, whose images stoode highest in the Temple vppon the Altars: they were made of stone in ful proportion as bigge as a Gyant. They were couered with a lawne called _Nacar_. These images were besette with pearles, precious stones, & péeces of gold, wrought like birds, beasts, fishes, and floures, adorned with Emeralds, Turquies, Calcedons, and other little fine stones, so that when the lawne _Nacar_ was taken away, the Images séemed very beautifull to beholde. [Sidenote: A vvicked attire.] The Image had for a girdle great snakes of gold, and for collors or chaynes about their neckes, ten hartes of men, made of golde, and each of those Idolles had a counterfaite visor with eies of glasse, and in their necks death painted: eache of these things hadde their considerations and meanings. These two Goddes were brethren, for _Tezcatlipuca_ was the God of Prouidence, and _Vitcilopuchtli_ God of the warres, who was worshipped and feared more than all the rest. [Sidenote: A madde offering.]