Letters of Cortes: The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V.G.P. Putnam, 1908 |
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الصفحة 233 - And we have always held that his descendants would come to subjugate this country and us, as his vassals; and according to the direction from which you say you come, which is where the sun rises, and from what you tell us of your great lord, or king, who has sent you here, we believe and hold for certain that he is our rightful sovereign, especially as you tell us that since many days he has had news of us. Hence you may be sure that we shall obey you and hold you as the representative of this great...
الصفحة 175 - ... and all those who come after us. But, on account of the multitude which has sprung from this man and woman in the five thousand years since the world was created, it was necessary that some men should go one way and some another, and that they should be divided into many kingdoms and provinces, for in one alone they could not be sustained.
الصفحة 256 - There is much wood, charcoal, braziers made of earthenware, and mats of divers kinds for beds, and others, very thin, used as cushions, and for carpeting halls, and bed-rooms. There are all sorts of vegetables, and especially onions, leeks, garlic, borage, nasturtium, water-cresses, sorrel, thistles, and artichokes. There are many kinds of fruits, amongst others cherries, and prunes, like the Spanish ones. They sell bees-honey and wax, and honey made of corn stalks, which is as sweet and syrup-like...
الصفحة 233 - Tlascalans have told you much evil of me, but believe no more than you see with your own eyes, especially from those who are my enemies, some of whom were once my subjects, and having rebelled upon your arrival, make these statements to ingratiate themselves in your favor. These people, I know, have informed you that I possessed houses with walls of gold, and that my carpets and other things in common use were of the texture of gold...
الصفحة 257 - There is a building in the great square that is used as an audience house, where ten or twelve persons, who are magistrates, sit and decide all controversies that arise in the market, and order delinquents to be punished. In the same square there are other persons who go constantly about among the people observing what is sold, and the measures used in selling; and they have been seen to break measures that were not true.
الصفحة 257 - ... idols there are other convenient habitations. All these persons dress in black, and never cut or comb their hair from the time they enter the priesthood until they leave it ; and all the sons of the principal inhabitants, both nobles and respectable citizens, are placed in the temples and wear the same dress from the age of seven or eight years until they are taken out to be married : which occurs more frequently with the firstborn who inherit...
الصفحة 256 - They sell deerskins, with all the hair tanned on them, and of different colours ; much earthenware, exceedingly good, many sorts of pots, large and small, pitchers, large tiles, an infinite variety of vases, all of very singular clay, and most of them glazed and painted They sell maize, both in the grain and made into bread, which is very superior in its quality to that of the other islands and mainland ; pies of birds and fish, also much fish, fresh, salted, cooked, and raw; eggs of hens, and geese,...
الصفحة 231 - Iztapalapan, whence I had come that day. All were dressed in the same manner, except that Montezuma was shod, and the other lords were barefooted. Each supported him below his arms and as we approached each other...
الصفحة 229 - ... and the other half on land. Its chief has some new houses which, though still unfinished, are as good as the best in Spain ; I say as large and well constructed, not only in the stone work but also in the wood work, and all arrangements for every kind of household service, all except the relief work and other rich details which are used in Spanish houses but are not found here. There are both upper and lower rooms and very refreshing gardens, with many trees and sweet scented flowers, bathing...
الصفحة 53 - Nuno de Guzman was a most deplorable one. He appears to have had nothing about him of the nature of a statesman, but to have been a cruel, rapacious, inconsiderate man, whose career is strikingly similar to that of some of the captains who, under Pedrarias, had desolated the Terra-Firma.