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.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

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

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.

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.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

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.