It was no sooner day, but the _Indians_ beganne theyr assault a fresh, with more courage and furie than the day before, so that our men were fayne to trust to their artillery, the whiche the _Indians_ feared not a whitte: for if a shotte carried ten, fiftene or twentie _Indians_ at a clappe, they would close againe as though one man had not bene missyng. _Cortes_ came out with other twoo hundreth men, and gate some bridges, burned some houses, and slew many that defended them. But the _Indians_ were so many in number, that no hurte appeared, yea and our men were so fewe in comparison of them, that although they fought al the day, yet had they much a doe to defend themselues, how much more to offende. That day neuer a Spaniarde was slayne outright, but thrée score of them were wounded and hurte, wherby they had inough to do to cure them for that night, and to procure remedy and defence against the hurtes whiche they receyued from the house toppes. They inuented Engines of timber made vpon whéeles, and foure square, couered on the toppe, and with Arte to passe through the streates: there were placed on eache of them twentie men with Pikes, Hargabush, Crossebowes and one double Base. Behinde the Engines wente men with shouels and Mattockes, to throwe downe houses, bulworkes, and to rule and gouerne the Engines. The death of Mutezuma. All the while that the Engines were a makyng, our men came not out to fight, beyng occupied in the worke, but onely to defende their lodgyng. The enimies thinkyng that they were all sore hurte and wounded, beganne their warres agayne, reuilyng them with many iniurious wordes, threatnyng them, that if they woulde not deliuer _Mutezuma_, that they woulde giue them the moste cruellest death that euer man suffered, and came with great force to haue entred the house. _Cortes_ desired _Mutezuma_ to goe vp into the sotie, which is the toppe of the flatte roufe of the house, and to commaunde his subiects to ceasse from their heate and furie. At _Cortes_ his request he wente vp, and leaned ouer the wall to talke with them, who beginnyng to speake vnto them, they threw so many stones out of the streate, houses and windowes, that one happened to hitte _Mutezuma_ on the temples of his head, with whiche blowe he fell downe to the ground: this was his ende, euen at the handes of his owne subiectes and vassalles agaynst theyr willes: for the truth is that a Spaniarde helde a Target ouer his head, wherby they knew him not, nor yet would beléeue that he was there, for all the signes and tokens whiche were made vnto them. _Cortes_ forthwith published the hurte and daunger of life of _Mutezuma_: some gaue credite to his tale, and othersome woulde not, but rather fought very stoutly. Thrée dayes _Mutezuma_ remayned in extréeme payne, and at the ende departed his life.