_Pamfilo de_ _Naruaez_ accused him for the same, saying, that he hadde spoyled the woddes and mountaynes, and spente seauen thousand beames of Ceder trées in the worke of his own house. The number séemeth more héere than there, for where all the Mountaynes are replenished with Ceder trées, it is a small matter. There are Gardines in _Tezcuco_, that haue a thousand Ceder trées for walles and circuite, yea and there are Ceder trées of a hundred & twëty foote long, and twelue foote in compasse from ende to end. They built faire dockes couered ouer with arches for y^e Vergantines, whereas (for a perpetuall memorie) all the thirtéene Vergantines do remayne vntil this day. They dammed vp the stréetes of water, where now faire houses stand, so that _Mexico_ is not as it was wont to be, yea and since the yeare of 1524. the lake decreaseth, and sometime casteth out a vapour of stench, but otherwise it is a wholesome and temperate dwelling, by reason of the Mountaynes that standeth round about it, and well prouided through the fertilitie of the Countrey, and commoditie of the lake, so that now is _Mexico_ one of the greatest Cities in the world, and the most noble in all _India_, as well in armes as policie. There are at the least two thousande Citizens, that haue each of them his horse in his stable, with riche furniture for them. There is also great contractation, and all sortes of occupations. Also a money house, where money is dayly coyned: a fayre schole, whiche the Vizeroy _Don Antonio de Mendosa_ caused to be made. There is a greate difference betwixte an inhabitant of _Mexico_, and a Conqueror, for a Conqueror is a name of honor, and hathe landes and rentes, and the inhabitante or onely dweller payeth rente for hys house. When this Citie was a building, & not throughlye furnished, _Cortes_ came from _Culhuacan_ to dwell there. The fame of _Cortes_, and maiestie of _Mexico_, was blowen abroade into farre prouinces, by meanes whereof, it is now so replenished, as I haue before declared, yea & hath so many _Spanyards_, who haue conquered aboue 400. leagues of land, being all gouerned by the princely seate of _Mexico_. Hovv the Emperour sent to take accompt _of Cortes of his gouernement in the newe Spayne_. [Sidenote: The revvard of a knaue.]