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who fccretly ftole away their weapons , which were 

 great clubbes, targets, {words of wood,and other fuch 

 armes . Then did they fodainely fet vpon them , and 

 the Chicbimects feeking to defend themfelves,they did 

 want their armes,fo as they fled to the mountainesand 

 forrefts adioynirig, where they pulled downe trees, as 

 if they had bcene ftalkes of letticcs . But in the end, the 

 Tlufealtecaifs being armcd,and marching in order, they 

 defeated all the giants,not leaving one alive. We muft 

 , notholdethisofthegiantstobeftrange,orafable 5 for 

 atthisday we finde dead mens bones of an incredible 

 bignes. 



When I was in Mexico , in the yearc of our Lorde, 

 one thoufand five hundred eighty^fixe^they found one 

 of thofe giants buried in one of our farmes , which we 

 call lefa dit Mwt,of whom they brought a tooth to be 

 fecne, which (withoutaugmenting) was as big as the 

 fift of a man, and according to this, all the reft was pro 

 portionable, which I faw and admired at his deformed 

 greatnes . ThcTlafealteuns by this vidory remained 

 peaceable, and fb did the reft of the linages . ^Thefefix 

 linages did alwayes entertaincamitie together, marry* 

 ing their children one with another, and dividing their 

 limites quietly : then they ftudicd with an emulation to 

 encreafeandbeautifie their common-weale . Thebar- 

 barous ChicbM^AVs^fecing what paflfed, begannc to 

 vfe feme governement,and to apparrell thenifelves,.fee- 

 ing afliamed of what had paflcd : for till then they had 

 no fliame. And having abandoned feare by their com 

 munication with thefe other people , they begannc to 

 learne many things of them, building fmall cottages, 

 having fbrne pollicie and governement. They did alfo 

 choofe Lordcs, whom they did acknowledge for their 



fuperiors, 



