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.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

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.

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

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.

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.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.