ABSTRACT
The chief feast of Chimaltenango is upon the 26 day of July, and then is the richest fair that ever eyes beheld in those parts of all sorts of merchants and merchandise. It is further set forth with bull-baiting, horse-racing, stage-plays, masks, dances, music, and all this gallantly performed by the Indians of the town. A little from the town christian missionaries had some craggy ways, which indeed, had need of lights, but afterwards missionary men came into a plain champaign country, which continued till within a league of the middle way lodge; to the which their were to descend a steep hill. Within a league from guatemala of Chimaltenango the roadway leaving that open, wide, and spacious valley, contrails and gathereth in itself between hills and mountains standing on each side, and so continueth to the city. From this valley unto Guatemala, neither is there any ascent or descent but a plain, broad, and sandy way.
