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.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

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.

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.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

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.