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

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

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

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.

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.