A sallet of planches of golde, and belles rounde aboute it, decked with stone. A bracelet of golde of small weight. A rodde lyke vnto a roiall Scepter, with twoo rings of golde hangyng thereat, garnished with pearle. Foure forkes with thrée shepehookes at ech, couered with feathers of sundry colours. Many payres of shoes made of Déere skinnes, sowed with golde thréede, and in the soales were sette certayne stones of colour white and blewe whiche shyned fayre. Sixe payre of letherne shoes of diuers colours, garnished with golde, siluer, and pearle. A Targatte of woodde couered with leather, beset round about with belles of Latton, and the bosse in the midst was planched with gold, and there was engraued vpon the same _Vitsilopucthli_, God of the warres, and also foure heads set crossewise, whiche heades were of a Lion, a Tigre, an Eagle, and an Owle, verye liuely made with feathers. Many skinnes of beast and foule, curried and dressed in their feathers and in haire. Foure and twenty targets of gold feathers, and set with pearle both curious and gallant to behold. Fiue Targets of feathers and siluer. Foure fishes of gold wel wrought. Two birdes called Auades, and other birdes of gold. Certaine Hatchets and a rod of latten. Diuerse loking glasses garnished with gold. Many Myters and crownes of gold & feathers wrought of many colours beset with pearle and stone. Many faire feathers of sundry colours. Many tuffes of feathers adorned with siluer and gold. A garment like a coape of cotten, wouen of sundry coulours, and in the middest a blacke whele made of feathers. Many surplices, vestments, palles, frontals and ornaments of Idols alters and temples. Many couerlets of cotten of diuerse colours, whyche shewed like vnto vnshorne veluet. Manye shirtes, Iackettes, headclothes and other naperie. Many Carpets and hangings of cotten. Al these things wer more beautiful than rich, although the whéeles were very rich, the workmanshippe of al the rest, was more worth than the thing it selfe. The colours of the cloth of cotten wool was excéeding fine, and the fethers natural. [Sidenote: Straunge Paper.] The pounced worke in gold and siluer did excéed our goldsmithes, of whiche things we wil write in an other place. They ioyned with this present certaine _Indian_ bookes of figures which serue to their vse for letters: these bookes are folden like vnto clothes, and written on both sides. Some of these bookes were made of cotten & glewe, and others were made of leaues of a certaine trée called Melt, whyche serue for theyr paper, a thyng straunge to behold. At that time the _Indiäs_ of _Zempoallan_ had many prisoners to sacrifice. _Cortez_ demaunded them to send vnto the Emperour, but the _Indians_ desired him to pardon them, for if we so do (quoth they) we shall offend our gods, who will take awaye our corne and children from vs, yea and also our liues in so doing.