The Life of Hernando Cortes, Volum 1Bell and Daldy, 1871 - 277 pàgines |
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Pàgina 137 - Hay en esta gran plaza una muy buena casa como de audiencia, donde están siempre sentados diez o doce personas, que son jueces y libran todos los casos y cosas que en el dicho mercado acaecen, y mandan castigar los delincuentes. Hay en la dicha plaza otras personas que andan continuo entre la gente mirando lo que se vende y las medidas con que miden lo que venden, y se ha visto quebrar alguna que estaba falsa.
Pàgina 56 - An answer came back from Montezuma in seven days, and was brought by Teotlili, one of the officers who had before met Cortes.
Pàgina 143 - Huitzilopochtli's neck, a fitting ornament, were the faces of men wrought in silver, and their hearts in gold. Close by were braziers with incense, and on the braziers three real hearts of men who had that day been sacrificed. All around, the walls were black with clotted blood.* On the left hand of the God of War...
Pàgina 105 - And when we saw from thence so many cities and towns rising up from the water, and other populous places situated on the Terra-firma, and that causeway, straight as a level, which went into Mexico, we remained astonished, and said to one another that it appeared like the enchanted castles which they tell of in the book of Amadis, by reason of the great towers, temples, and edifices which there were in the water, and all of them work of masonry. Some even of our soldiers asked if this that they saw...
Pàgina 107 - Mexico ofNov-8> that age? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice and Constantinople, who had looked down upon Granada from the Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh.
Pàgina 245 - When Cortes came up to him, he was found accompanied only by seven soldiers, and eight Tlascalans, all covered with blood from their many wounds. They told Cortes that there was no use in going further back, that all who remained alive were there with them. Upon this the General turned ; and the small and melancholy band of Spaniards pushed on to Tlacuba, Cortes protecting the rear.
Pàgina 27 - Velazquez stood as godfather to one of the children of Cortes. After his marriage Cortes employed himself in getting gold by means of his Indians : — " How many of whom died in extracting this gold for him God will have kept a better account than I have,
Pàgina 107 - Después de bien visto todo aquello, fuimos a la huerta y jardín, que fue cosa muy admirable verlo y pasearlo, que no me hartaba de mirar la diversidad de árboles y los olores que cada uno tenía, y andenes llenos de rosas y flores, y muchos frutales y rosales de la tierra, y un estanque de agua dulce...
Pàgina 232 - Cortés lloró por él, y todos nuestros capitanes y soldados ; e hombres hubo entre nosotros, de los que le conocíamos y tratábamos, que tan llorado fue como si fuera nuestro padre ; y no nos hemos de maravillar dello viendo que tan bueno era...
Pàgina 76 - It was usual for a number of archers to assemble together, and throw up an ear of maize into the air, at which they immediately shot with such quickness and dexterity, that before it could reach the ground it was stripped of every grain.