After this confession taken, _Cortes_ full prudently commaunded to take also the severall confessions of other foure or fyue, who likewise confessed that they were all espies, vppon whose confessions the were al fiftie taken prisoners, and iudgmente giuen, that their one hande should be cut off, which was forthwith executed, and then were returned to their Camp, signifying vnto them that the like iustice should be executed vpon as many espyes as they might take. And also they were charged to shew vnto their Generall who had sente them, that both daye and night he would be ready for them. When the _Tlaxcaltecas_ sawe their espyes come in thys pickle, they were in a maruellous feare, and it séemed a newe world vnto them: they also beléeued that oure men hadde some familiar spirites that did instructe them of their thoughtes, and with feare of cutting off häds, there went no moe espies with victuals. An embassage that Mutezuma sente _to Hernando Cortez_. [Sidenote: A carefull Captayne.] VVhen these espyes were gone, oure men espyed out of our Campe a great multitude of men goe crossing ouer a hill, and it séemed that they were those that the Captayne _Xicotencatl_ hadde in ambush: and although it was néere night, _Cortes_ determined to followe them, and not to abide their comming, fearing that at a first brunt they mighte set fire among his cotages, as was pretended among them, whiche pretence hauing taken effecte, myght haue bin the destruction of all his men, eyther by the fier or otherwise: wherefore he put all his men in good order, and commaunded the Horsemenne to decke the brest plates of hys Horses with belles, and then procéeded towarde their enimies, who durst not abide their comming, hauing intelligence of the cutting of their espyes hands, and likewise hearing the new noyse of belles: yet oure men followed them tyll two houres within night, through many sowen fieldes of _Centli_, and slew many of thë, and then returned with victorie to the Campe. [Sidenote: Ambassage from Mutezuma.] At that season were come sixe noble men from _Mexico_, who brought two hundred seruing men to wayt vpon them. They brought vnto _Cortes_ a present, whiche was a hundred garments of cotten, and some of feathers, and a thousand péeces of golde. [Sidenote: Excuses.]