The nexte day _Cortes_ laide an ambush with fiftie horsmen, and sent before him the Vergantines, but hée himselfe with thirtie horsemen, abode in certaine great houses in the Market place. They foughte that day in many places of the Citie, and at the retire, one shot of a handgun, whiche was the token that those which lay in ambushe should come forth. The enimies folowed our men, that séemed to flée with maruellous greate courage. But they were not so soone passed the snare, when _Cortes_ came forth with his thirtie horsemen, saying, vpon them, vpon them: By this onely meane were slaine aboue fiue hundred _Mexicans_, besides the prisoners. Our _Indian_ friends had a good supper that nyght with mans fleshe, whiche as yet they would not be perswaded to leaue. Certaine Spaniards went vppe into a Tower of Idols, and there opened a sepulchre, where they found fiue hundred Castlins in golde: With this ouerthrowe the _Mexicans_ remayned in suche feare, that all their threatnings and triumphes were turned into mourning: and euer after whë they saw our men retire, they would not folow them, fearing the like danger, so that this was a meane, the sooner to win _Mexico_. The hunger and infirmitie vvhich the _Mexicans suffered with greate courage_. Two poore soules who were vexed wyth hunger, came in the nighte season out of the citie vnto _Cortes_ his Camp, who certifyed, how the Citizens were in greate necessitie, and so manye dead with hunger and sicknesse, that there were heapes of dead bodyes in the houses, only to kéepe close their extreame miserie: and said also, that in the night season manye came out to fishe betwéene the houses with feare of the _Vergantines_, and others came out to séeke for wodde, hearbes, and rootes to eate. [Sidenote: A cruell fact of Cortez.]