The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.