TOWERS, COURTS, ETC. 



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it was admirable, and equal to any they had ever seen 

 in Castille.' , 



"I and ten more soldiers were posted as a guard 

 upon a wall of lime and stone." 



" When we arrived at our quarters at Jacuba it rain- 

 ed heavily, and we remained under it for two hours in 

 some large enclosed courts* The general, with his cap- 

 tains, the treasurer, our reverend father, and many others 

 of us, mounted to the top of the temple , which command- 

 ed all the lake." 



" We crossed the water up to our necks at the pass 

 they had left open, and followed them until we came to 

 a place where were large temples and towers of idols" 



" As Cortez now lodged at Cuejoacan, in large build- 

 ings with white walls, very well adapted for scribbling 

 on, there appeared every morning libels against him in 

 prose and verse. I recollect the words of one only : 



4 Que trista esta el alma mea 

 Hasta que la parte vea.' 



How anxious I am for a share of the plunder." 



" When our party (for I went with Sandoval) arrived 

 at Tustepeque, I took up my lodgings in the summit of 

 a tower in & very high temple, partly for the fresh air 

 and to avoid the moschetoes, which were very trouble- 

 some below, and partly to be near Sandoval's quarters." 

 " We pursued our route to the city of Chiapas, in the 

 same province with Palenque, and a city it might be 

 called, from the regularity of its streets and houses. It 

 contained not less than four thousand families, not reck- 

 oning the population of the many dependant towns in 

 its neighbourhood." " We found the whole force of 

 Chiapas drawn up to receive us. Their troops were 

 adorned with plumage." 



" On our arrival we found it too closely built to be 



