"And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against…"

"Presently we discovered two or three villages, and the people all came down to the shore, calling out to us, and givi…"

"I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see…"

"I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold ca…"

"The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom and were put into the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude …"

"The city of Temixtitan Tenochtitlán] is itself is as big as Seville or Córdoba.… This city has many squares where tra…"

"Broken spears lie in the roads; We have torn our hair in our grief. The houses are roofless now, and their walls Are …"

"We traveled over a great part of the country and found it all deserted, since the people had fled to the mountains, l…"

"They [Indians] brought us blankets, which they had been concealing from the Christians, and gave them to us, and told…"

"Who can doubt that gunpowder against the infidels is incense for the Lord?"