_Naruaez_ signifyed againe vnto _Mutezuma_ with the messengers who carried all the triumph and muster pointed, all his former dealings, but hearing that _Cortes_ was néere at hande, he sente out hys lyght Horsemen to dyscrie his Campe. All _Naruaez_ his Horses were readye sadled and brideled, and his men armed. _Cortes_ entred so close and secret, that no man almost hearde him, and the firste worde hée spake, hauyng all hys men within with him, was, shut the gates, and strike, downe with them. There were at that time many shining wormes, whiche with their glistering séemed matches of Hargabushe, so that if one péece at that time had bin discharged, they woulde haue bin in a great feare. _Naruaez_ béeing about to put on his priuie coate, came one vnto him, saying: Sir, _Cortes_ is néere your lodgyng, let him come in (quoth he) for he commeth to talke with me. _Naruaez_ had his men in foure Towers of his lodging, and he himselfe was in the one, with a hundred Spanyardes, and at his dore thirtéene péeces of Ordinance ready charged. _Cortes_ commanded his chiefe Sheriffe _Gösalo de Sädoual_, with fortie or fiftie of his fellowes, to goe vp into _Naruaez_ his Chamber, and he himselfe with other twentie men abode at the dore to defende and kéepe that none might enter thereat, vntil he had finished his businesse. The residue of his men besieged the other Towers, so that they might not succoure one another. [Sidenote: A darke night for Naruaez.] _Naruaez_ hearing the noyse, woulde néedes fighte, although he was required to stay his handes, and comming out at his Chamber dore, they strake out one of his eyes with a pike, and then they layde hande vpon hym, dragging and drawyng him downe the stayres by the héeles, and when he sawe hymselfe broughte before _Cortes_, he sayde, oh _Senior Cortes_, thanke your great fortune, in hauyng my person prisoner: who aunswered hym againe, oh _Naruaez_, the hauing of thy body prisoner, is the least thing that I haue done, sithence I came into thys lande. _Cortes_ commaunded forthwith to lay him in yrös, and to carrie him to the riche towne of _Vera Crux_, where he abode prisoner certayne yeares. This combat endured but a while, for within one hour _Pamfilo de Naruaez_ and the chiefest of his company were taken prisoners, and their weapös & armour taken from all the rest. There were slayne of _Naruaez_ his men sixetéene, and of _Cortes_ his side were killed only two persons with a péece of Ordinance. They had no leysure to giue fire to their Ordinance, with the great diligence and hast of _Cortes_, sauing vnto one péece that killed the two men. The tutche holes were stopped with waxe, through the great raine that had fallen. By this meane those that were ouercome, did take occasion to ymagine that _Cortes_ had suborned the maister gunner, and others.