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LIB. vii. &quot;bridges to passe two great and dangerous passages, about 

 midnight they issued forth as secretly as they could, the 

 greatest part of his people having passed the first bridge, 

 they were discovered by an Indian woman before they 

 could passe the second, who cried out their enemies fled, 

 at the which voice all the people ran together with a hor 

 rible furie : so as in passing the second bridge, they were 

 so charged and pursued, as there remained above three 

 hundred men slaine and hurt in one place ; where at this 

 day there is a smal hermitage, which they vnproperly cal 

 of Martyrs. Many Spaniards (to preserve the gold and 

 iewells which they had gotten), perished, and others staying 

 to carry it away, were taken by the Mexicans, and cruelly 

 sacrificed to their idols. The Mexicans found king Monte- 

 (^tima dead, and wounded as they say with poiniards, and 

 they hold opinion that that night the Spaniards slew him 

 with other Noblemen. The Marquis in his relation sent 

 to the Emperour, writes the contrary, and that the Mexicans 

 killed him that night with a son of Moiiteguma, which he led 

 with him amongst other noblemen, saying, that all the 

 treasure of gold, stones, and silver fell into the lake and 

 was never more seene. But howsoever, Monte^urna died 

 miserably, and paied his deserts to the iust iudgement of 

 our Lord of heaven for his pride and tyranny : his body 

 falling into the Indians power, they would make him no 

 obsequies of a king, no, not of an ordinarie person, but 

 cast it away in great disdaine and rage. A servant of his 

 having pittie of this king s miserie (who before had bene 

 feared and worshipped as a God) made a fier thereof, and 

 put the ashes in a contemptible place. Returning to the 

 Spaniards that escaped, they were greatly tyred and tur- 

 moiled, the Indians following them two or three daies very 

 resolutely, giving them no time of rest, being so distressed 

 for victualls, as a few graines of Mays were divided amongst 

 them for their meate. The relations both of the Spaniards 



