Hernando Cortes Quotes
I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.
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.
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.
They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.
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.
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.
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.
