The same day that they departed frö _Zempoallan_ they came to _Chiauiztlan_, and yet the shippes were not arriued. _Cortes_ marueyled at their long tarying in so shorte a iourney. Ther was a village within shotte of a hargabushe from the rocke called _Chiauiztlan_ standyng vpon a litle hill. _Cortes_ hauing little to do, went thither with his men, and the _Indians_ of _Zempoallan_, who certified _Cortes_ that the village was appertayning to a Lorde oppressed by _Mutezuma_. They came to the foote of the hill, without sighte of any man of the towne, excepte twoo, that _Marina_ vnderstoode not, and going vp the hill, the horsemen to fauour their horses would alight, bicause the ascending was cragged and euill way, _Cortes_ commaunded that they shoulde not alight, bycause the _Indians_ shoulde thinke that there was no place highe nor lowe, but that these horses shoulde and coulde come vnto it. So by litle and litle they came into the towne, and finding no creature there, they feared some deceyte, yet approchyng further, they mette with twelue auncient men, whiche brought with them an interpreter who vnderstoode the language of _Culhua_ and the speache of that place, whiche is the language of the _Totonaquez_, or inhabitauntes of the Mountaynes. These auncient menne declared that the cause of theyr goyng out of the towne, was bycause that they had neuer séene anye such men as the Spaniardes were, nor yet heard that any such had passed that way, wherefore with feare they had fledde from thence. But (quoth they) when the Lord of _Zempoallan_ aduertised vs, how you did hurt no bodye, but rather being a people good and peaceable, then wee were well assured who ye were, when we saw you come toward vs. And wee are nowe comen vnto you on the behalfe of the Lorde, to bring you to your lodging. _Cortez_ gaue them thankes, and went with them to a certaine place where the Lord was abydyng their comming wel accompanyed: he shewed vnto the Christians great good wil, and maruelled to sée those straungers with their long beardes. [Sidenote: A straunge salutation.] The Lord toke a little chafyngdishe in his hande, and cast into it a certaine gumme, whych sauoured in swéet smel much like vnto frankinscence. And with a sencer he smoked _Cortez_ with this ceremony they vse their salutations to theyr gods and nobilitie. [Sidenote: A straunge hap.] This done they set them down, and _Cortez_ enformed him of the cause of their comming into that countrey as he had done in all other places where he had bin.