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28 good bottom for anchorage, and it was, moreover, sheltered from northers. Our captain and thirty of us soldiers, all well armed, went over the island, and found a temple on which stood a large and ugly idol of the god Tezcatlipoca. Four Indian priests or papas, clad in wide black cloaks, and with flying hair, had that very day offered the hearts and blood of two