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 camp or from ours. And we all gathered in the square, so many of the enemy charging on us from every side that we had enough to do to keep them off, and even in places where before this rout they would never have dared to come, they killed three horsemen and ten soldiers. Immediately after, in one of the towers of their idols which was near the square, they offered many perfumes and incense of gums which they use in this country, very much like anime, offering them up to their idols in sign of victory; and even if we had wanted to stop this it could not be done, as almost all the people were already hastening towards the camp. In this rout, the adversary killed thirty-five or forty Spaniards and more than one thousand Indians, our friends, and wounded more than twenty Christians; and I came out wounded in one leg. A small field piece was lost and many crossbows, muskets, and arms.