ABSTRACT
As we were filling our casks with water there came along the coast towards us from the town of Potonchan 1 (as it is called) many squadrons of Indians clad in cotton armour reaching to the knees, and armed with bows and arrows, lances and shields, and swords like two handed broad swords, and slings and stones and carrying the feathered crests which they are accustomed to wear. Their faces were painted black and white, and ruddled and they came in silence straight towards us, as though they came in peace, and by signs they asked whether we came from where the sun rose, and we replied that we did come from the direction of the sunrise. We were at our wits end considering the matter and wondering what the words were which the Indians called out to us for they were the same as those used by the people of Lázaro, but we never made out what it was that they said. <italic>Part of a Mural Painting of a</italic> Battle from the Ball Court Temple Chichén Itzá, Yucatan. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315551883/4bd524a6-beb6-46b3-99bf-66389eeff141/content/plate2.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> After a drawing by Miss Adela Breton. Reproduced and printed for the Hakluyt Society by Donald Macbeth. 1908.
