With great difficulty they drew off their troops to the entrenchment on the causeway, and here the guns of the ships, sweeping the road, drove back their assailants.

The greatest anxiety prevailed as to the fate of Cortez, until Tapia arrived, bleeding from several wounds, which he had received from parties of men whom Guatimozin had stationed to interrupt the communication between the two camps.
Sandoval at once rode round.

He, too, was attacked on the road; but his armor, and that of his horse protected him from the missiles showered upon them.

On arriving at the camp, he found the troops much dispirited.

Numbers had been killed and wounded, and no less than sixty-two Spaniards, with a multitude of allies, had fallen into the hands of the enemy.