Chap. III. 



A M E%,1 C A. 



77 





Mtfcph a Citjrr 



Spaniards flaisi. 



call'd the King Lazarus, becaufe he difcover'd his Counttey on St. La%amfs 

 Day. 



Making no long ftay here> they return'd to their Ship, and weighing An- 

 chor Sail'd fifty Leagues more Weflerly, the Fleet got fight of Mofcobo, in the 

 Territory Aguanil ? whofe King aflaulted the Spaniards with Co much fury, that 

 two and twenty of them were flairi, and fcarce one efcap'd which was not 

 wounded : wherefore they retufn'd with bad fuccefs to Cuba. Yet Vdafauzs 

 no ways difcourag'd thereat, not long after fitted out four VefTels, Manning 

 them with three hundred Men under the Command of Juan Grifalva and Ala* 

 mines-, who having Sail'd feventy Leagues ,difcover'd the fruitful Iiland Cofumella^ Mi s ht y in^ac*/"™*** 

 along whofe Shore flood fair Stone Edifices, intermix'd with Temples, whofe 

 Steeples appear'd above the Houfes. Grifaha being led up into one of thefe 

 Steeples by a Prieft, faw at a diftance off at Sea the Territory Jucatan : and in 

 the Place where they were,there were fpacious Halls, full of Marble and Stone 

 Images of deformed Men and Beafts, which with a murmuring noife, and 

 burning of incenfe they religioufly worfhip. The Spaniards call'd this Ifland 

 Santta Cruz^ 



Sailing from hence they dire&ed their Courfe to Campechium , where the 

 year before they had been Co civilly treated 5 where arriving, and without any 

 fear coming alhore, they found the Campecbiums quite of another humor than 

 they were the former year, telling them, They would not fuffer any Strangers 

 to beamongft them; and placing a burning Torch between theirs and the Spa- 

 nif} Forces, thrcatned,That if they did not depart in quiet, they would force 

 them: which accordingly they endeavor'd, making a fierce Onfetupon the 

 Spaniards-, who being now come under their Battlements, when they faw their 

 advantage, pour'd what they had kept as a refcrve, whole Volleys of fmall 

 Shot amongft them ; which ftruck fo much terror, that they all ran away, 

 fliifting for themfelves, and crowding into the City. 



The Spaniards found afterwards Jucatan to be but a fmnfula, and came be* 



L 3 fore 





Spaniards fight with the 

 CimfechUns. 



