The nexte day after these presentes were sente vnto them as Goddes, whiche was the sixte of September, there came to the Campe fiftie _Indians_ of _Tlaxcallan_, whiche séemed after theyr sorte honest menne, and gaue vnto _Cortes_ bread, cherries, & Gynnea cocks, as they ordinarily vsed to do, enquiring how all his Spaniardes did and what they meant to doe, and whether they stoode in necessitie of any thing. And after this communication they went vp and downe the camp, gasing and beholding the horses, armour and artillery, and seemed amased to sée such things. But the effect of their cöming was the office of espies. [Sidenote: The good aduise of a friende.] _Teuche_ of _Zempoallan_ marking these things, who being of a childe brought vp in wars, by reason wherof he was expert and wise, came vnto _Cortes_, saying, sir it semeth not well, y^t these _Tlaxcaltecas_ wander vp & downe your campe beholding the entrance and going out of the same, to beholde likewise the fortitude and weakenesse of youre power, I like it not: It may please you to make enquirie whether they be espyes or no. _Cortez_ hauing heard hys tale, gaue him hartie thankes for his good aduice, yea and maruelled, that neyther he himselfe, nor none of his Spanyardes had noted the thing, the _Indians_ hauing so many dayes come vnto them after this sort, yea and that only _Indian_ of _Zempoallan_ had considered it. [Sidenote: Confessiö.] Nowe the originall cause was not bycause _Teuch_ was more wise than the Christians, but by reason that hée had séene and heard those _Indians_ commune with the subiectes of _Iztacmixtlitan_ to féele their mindes, and wyth craft and subtiltie to obteyne their desire: whereby _Cortez_ vnderstoode that those fellowes came not to any good purpose: he apprehended that _Indian_ whiche stoode nexte vnto him, and hauing him alone from his fellowes, by his interpreters examined him effectually, who incontinent confessed that he was a spye, and that his comming thither was to view the way how to enter their Campe for to spoyle and burne their Tentes: and for so much as they hadde proued fortune all the houres of the day, and all happened contrary to their desire, against their auncient fame and glory which they hadde obteyned by noble exploytes in warres, they now meant to proue their successe by nighte, hoping of better fortune: and also bycause their souldiers shoulde not feare the Horses, with the darkenesse of the nighte, nor the blowes or stripes of the bright swordes, nor yet the fire and terrible noyse of the Ordinance: and that Captayne _Xicoteucatl_ was alreadye appoynted for that enterprise, with prouision of manye thousand souldiers which lay in ambush in a vale behind certayne hilles, right ouer against their Campe. [Sidenote: A good correction.]