* * * * pouring in at the same time such a shower of stones and arrows that they wounded fifteen Spaniards."
Bernal Diaz, from whom Herrera evidently quotes, says: "These warriors were armed with thick coats of cotton, and carried besides their bows and arrows, lances, shields, and slings."[1]
Landa (Relacion §XXIX) says their offensive weapons were bows and arrows, which they bore in a quiver, the latter made of reeds and having the points armed with obsidian or fish-teeth, and very sharp. "They had little hatchets of a particular metal," heretofore referred to, "which, in combat, served them as an arm." "They also had lances a tois [fathom] in length, armed at the end with a silex head, very hard. And they had no other arms."
Figures in red, like that shown in Fig. 20 (the little squares only are alluded to), are found in a number of places in the Manuscript. 
Fig. 20. Brasseur interprets them as symbols for cab, "honey" or "honeycomb." The connection in which they are found I think proves that he is correct. We find elsewhere, as in the character for Cauac, and on articles made of wood, a similar figure, usually smaller, outlined in black, but never colored. Attention will be called to this hereafter.
A figure like that shown in Fig. 21 is also found on several plates
of the Manuscript, but never in the Codex. Sometimes it is in the hands of a priest, but in a few instances it seems to be used as a character or symbol. Brasseur's interpretation is nen or "mirror"; but this I think is a mistake. It is more probable that it is a figure of the calendar wheel mentioned by Landa.
Mortars used for preparing paints are represented in two forms (see Figs. 22 and 23): their paint-pots as in Fig. 24. On Plate XXXIV we observe the priests in the act of painting blue that which is here shown (Fig. 25), which is probably a little adoratorio
- ↑ Hist.—Keating's Transl. p. 4.
