The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Band 1J. Hatchard and Son, 1844 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accompanied acquainted Aguilar Alonso Alvarado ambassadors arms arrived assured attack battle begged brought Cacamatzin camp cannon canoes cavalry CHAPTER chief Cholulla command Cortes ordered cotton stuffs Cozumel Cruz Cuba desired despatched Diego Velasquez Doña Marina Duero emperor enemy everything expedition fat cazique father Olmedo Francisco de Lugo Francisco de Montejo friends further gave gold Gomara Grijalva hand harbour holy horses Huexotzinco Huitzilopochtli human sacrifices idols immediately inhabitants Juan de Escalante killed kind lances latter learnt Leon likewise majesty Malinche Maxixcatzin mentioned merely Mexicans Mexico monarch Montejo Motecusuma Narvaez night numbers of Indians officers Ordas ourselves papas peace Pedro Pedro de Alvarado person personages pesos present prisoners provisions quarters received respecting Sandoval Sempoalla sent soldiers soon Spain Spaniards stones stood Tabasco temple teules Teuthlille things Tlascalla told took town township trinkets troops Vera Cruz vessels warriors whole wished wounded Xicotencatl
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Seite iv - ... bears all the marks of authenticity, and is accompanied with such a pleasant naivete, with such interesting details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier, who • had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language.
Seite 144 - We came to an enormous intrenchment, built so strongly of stone, lime, and a kind of hard bitumen, that it would only have been possible to break it down by means of pickaxes."* Such a wall, or the vestiges of it, would last for thousands of years ; for it is not in the destructive power of man wholly to obliterate it, and yet I have been utterly unable to find even a ruin, and I verily believe the whole of this Chinese wall is a fiction. Tlascala is an Indian reservation...
Seite 228 - His face was somewhat long, but he had a cheerful countenance, and his fine eyes had an expression of amiability or of ill will according to his humor. He was particularly clean in appearance, and took a bath every evening. Besides a number of concubines, who were all daughters of note and rank, he had two lawful wives of royal extraction, whom, however, he visited secretly without anyone daring to observe him, except his most confidential servants.
Seite 237 - ... called amatl ; the tubes filled with liquid amber and tobacco ; the various sweetscented salves, and similar things ; nor the various seeds which were exposed for sale in the porticoes of this market, nor the medicinal herbs. In this market-place there were also courts of justice, to which three judges and several constables were appointed, who inspected the goods exposed for sale. I had almost forgotten to mention the salt, and those who made the flint knives ; also the fish, and a species of...
Seite 278 - To this I will add a few chalchihuis of such enormous value that I would not consent to give them to any one save to such a powerful emperor as yours. Each of these stones is worth two loads of gold.
Seite 240 - I cannot imagine that such a powerful and wise monarch as you are, should not have yourself discovered by this time that these idols are not divinities, but evil spirits, called devils. In order that you may be convinced of this, and that your papas may satisfy themselves of this truth, allow me to erect a cross on the summit of this temple ; and, in the chapel, where stand your Huitzilopochtli and Tetzcatlipuca, give us a small space that I may place there the image of the holy Virgin ; then you...
Seite 235 - ... explanation of all we saw. Each class of merchandise had a separate place for its sale. We first visited those divisions of the market set apart for the sale of gold and silver wares, jewels, cloths interwoven with feathers, and other manufactured goods, where also slaves of both sexes were sold. The slave market was upon as great a scale as the Portuguese market for negro slaves at Guinea. To prevent the slaves from running away, they were fastened by halters around their necks, though some...
Seite 36 - Indian had with him a copper axe, which was very highly polished, with the handle curiously carved, as if to serve equally for an ornament as for the field of battle.
Seite 220 - ... them. Well might Diaz write: "And we, who were beholding this spectacle, who were passing through this dense concourse of human beings, were a mere handful of men, in all four hundred and fifty, our minds filled with the warnings of the inhabitants of Huexotzinco, Tlascala, and Tlalmanalco, and the caution they had given us not to expose our lives to the treachery of the Mexicans. I ask the kind reader to reflect a moment, and then to say whether he believes any men in this world ever attempted...
Seite 11 - You should then have ! 321 heard the whizzing of their arrows, the terrible yells of the Indians, and how they incited one another to fight. . . . Many of our men were wounded while climbing into the vessel, especially those who clung to its side, for the Indians pursued us in their canoes, and persistently assailed us. With the utmost exertion and the help of God we escaped from the hands of this people.