Our Fryers first entertainment by the Indians of the old Vera Crux. page [25].
A Franciscan Fryers vow and profession contrary to the vanity, carding, dicing, and swearing, practised by them of Xalappa, in the India's. page [26].
Abundance of Gnats in the Rinconada, taketh away the comfort of the great abundance of provision that is there. page [27].
From whence the Towne called Segura de la Frontera had its beginning. page [27]. [28].
CHAP. X.
Wherein is set downe the Estate and Condition of the great Towne of Tlaxcallan, when the first Spaniards entered into the Empire of Mexico. Cortez his first encounter with the Tlaxcalteca's, their League with him, with a description of the Towne, and of the state and condition of it now. page [29].
Contents.
A wall of stone without Lime or Morter, of a fadome and a halfe high, and twenty foot broad, built by the Indian, for a defence in time of Warres before the comming of the Spaniards. page [29].
Fourescore thousand Indians, soon raised and armed by those of Tlaxcallan, and soone overcome by a thousand onely Indians and Spaniards with Cortez. pag. [30]. [31].