courage, that no force or strength of _Indians_ can offende. Likewise wée haue experience, that Christ our sauiour hathe alwayes fauoured our nation in these parties. Therfore my déere friendes, let vs now in Gods name depart ioyfull, exspecting good successe, according to our beginning .&c. The entrance of Cortez into the _Iland of Acusamill_. [Sidenote: The feare of the Indians of Acusamil.] [Sidenote: Hovv the people vver found] [Sidenote: A facte vvorthy of prayse.] VVith the aforesayd communication, _Cortez_ gaue great hope to his cöpany of waightie matters, yea and great admiration of his person, so that all his company had an earnest desire to procéede on that iorney. And _Cortez_ likewise reioyced, to sée his men so willing: and incontinente, they embarqued themselues, and after their prayers made vnto God, hoysed vp their sayles, and with faire winde departed the eighttenth day of Februarie Anno 1519. And beyng at Sea, he willed all his nauie (as the vse is) to haue S. Peter for their patrone, warning them alwayes to follow the Admirall (wherin he went) bycause he carried a light for the night season to guide them the way, whiche was almost East and West from _S. Anthonies_ point, being the nerest part of _Cuba_ to _Cape de Cotoche_, which is the first läd point of _Yucatan_, whither they were bounde, so y^t being there, they might run alög the coast, betwene the North point and the West. The firste night y^t _Hernando Cortez_ begä to passe ouer the gulfe betweene _Cuba_ & _Yucatan_, being little aboue lx. leagues, the winde rose vp at Northeast with much force, so y^t all the Fléete were separated without sight y^e one of the other: yet by the accompt that their Pilots kept, they arriued all sauing one at the Ilande of _Acusamil_, although not at one time, and those that last ariued, wer the Admirall, and Captayne _Morla_ his Ship, who had lost his Ruther, but by shoting off a pece, _Cortez_ vnderstood his necessitie, and came vering to him, and amayned his sailes to succour him, being in y^e night season. Yet when the day appeared, it pleased God y^t the rage of the tempest ceassed, & being cléere day, they found agayne their Ruther, and trimmed the Ship, and made sayle, and sayled that day and the next following, without sighte of land, or any of the Fléete. But the third day they arriued at a cape or point of land, called Womens cape. _Cortez_ cömanded _Morla_ to follow him, directing his course to séeke the residue of his Fléete, and arriued in this sorte at the Iland of _Acusamil_, and there found all his nauie excepte one, whereof they hearde no newes in many dayes after. The people of that Ilande beholding suche a straunge sight, were in great feare and admiratiö, so that they gathered their stuffe and wente vp into the Mountaynes. _Cortez_ caused a certayne number of his më to goe a land to a Towne which was néere the place where they were arriued, and they foüd the towne wrought with Masons worke, and good