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The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

Hernán Cortés

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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.

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Hernán Cortés

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

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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.

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Hernán Cortés

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

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Hernán Cortés

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

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Hernán Cortés

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

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