The noble men that were there present, besought him to giue them leaue to skirmish with the _Indians_ of _Culhua_, for as yet many of them wandered there aboute. _Cortes_ graunted their request, and sente with them some of hys men, which were lustie, and in good health, who procéeded forth all togither, and in that iourney slewe many _Indian_ enimies, so that after this time, the enimies appeared no more. Then with triumph, pleasure, and victory, they departed toward the Citie, and oure men followed. It is credibly reported, that twenty thousande men and women met them by the way with sundry kindes of meates: I do beléeue that the most of them came to sée them, for the great loue whiche they bare vnto them, and likewise to enquire of their friends which had gone with them to _Mexico_, of whome few returned. In _Tlaxcallan_ they were honorable receyued, and well vsed. _Maxixca_ gaue hys house to _Cortes_, and the residue of hys company were hosted at Gentlemens houses, who cherished them excéedingly, whereby they forgate the paynes, sorrowes, and trauels past, for in fiftéene dayes before, they lay on the bare ground. Certaynely the Spanyardes were muche indebted to the _Tlaxcaltecas_, for their loyaltie and faithfull friendship, especially vnto that good and vertuous Gentleman _Maxixca_, who threwe _Xicotencatl_ downe the stayres and steppes of the chiefe Temple, for giuing his counsell to kyll the Spanyardes, meaning to reconcile hymselfe with the _Mexicans_. He also made two Orations, the one to the men, and the other to the women, in the greate fauoure and prayse of the Spanyardes, putting them in remembrance, howe that they hadde not eaten salt, nor worne cloth of cotten wooll in many yeares before, vntil now that their friends were come: and to this day these _Indians_ doe muche presume of their fidelitie, and likewise of the resistance and battayle they made with _Cortes_ in _Teoacazinco_, so that now when they celebrate any great feast, or receyue any Christian vizeking, there commeth of them out into the field sixtie or seauentie thousande men, to skirmishe and fight in the same order as they did with _Cortes_. The protestation and request _of the Souldyers to Cortes_. VVhen _Cortes_ departed firste from _Tlaxcallon_ towardes _Mexico_ to visit _Mutezuma_, hée lefte there twentie thousande Castlins of golde and moe, besides the Kings portion which was sent with _Monteio_ and _Portocarrero_. He lefte there also manye other things if néede should haue happened in _Mexico_ of money, or other things to prouide his men in _Vera Crux_, and this he lefte there also, to proue the fidelitie of his friendes in _Tlaxcallon_. And after he had obteyned the victory against _Naruaez_, he wrote vnto the Captayne that he shoulde sende for the same, for reason required that in all things they should haue their partes. [Sidenote: Exclamation.]