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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Spain, and it was very successful, and we did not, as the historian Gomara says, kill and capture and destroy thousands of men in this affair at Cingapacinga, and he who reads this can see how far one story differs from the other, and however good the style of his history may be, nothing is set down as it really happened. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIESTS OF THE IDOLS. 189 CHAPTER LII. How Cortes had an altar made and set up an image of Our Lady and a Cross, and how mass was said and the eight Indian damsels were baptized. WHEN the Caciques, priests and chieftains were silenced, Cortes ordered all the idols which we had overthrown and broken to pieces to be taken out of sight and burned. Then eight priests who had charge of the idols came out of a chamber and carried them back to the house whence they had come, and burned them. These priests wore black cloaks like cassocks and long gowns reaching to their feet, and some had hoods like those worn by canons, and others had smaller hoods like those worn by Dommicans, and they wore their hair very long, down to the waist, with some even reaching down to the feet, covered with blood and so matted together that it could not be separated, and their ears were cut to pieces by way of sacrifice, and they stank like sulphur, and they had another bad smell like carrion, and as they said, and we learnt that it was true, these priests were the sons of chiefs and they abstained from women, but they indulged in the cursed practice of sodomy, and they fasted on certain day?, and what I saw them eat was the pith or seeds of cotton when the cotton was being cleaned, but they may have eaten other things which I did not see. Let us leave the priests and go back to Cortes who made them a good speech through our...

Format: Paperback

Release: September 12, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781230220574

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Spain, and it was very successful, and we did not, as the historian Gomara says, kill and capture and destroy thousands of men in this affair at Cingapacinga, and he who reads this can see how far one story differs from the other, and however good the style of his history may be, nothing is set down as it really happened. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIESTS OF THE IDOLS. 189 CHAPTER LII. How Cortes had an altar made and set up an image of Our Lady and a Cross, and how mass was said and the eight Indian damsels were baptized. WHEN the Caciques, priests and chieftains were silenced, Cortes ordered all the idols which we had overthrown and broken to pieces to be taken out of sight and burned. Then eight priests who had charge of the idols came out of a chamber and carried them back to the house whence they had come, and burned them. These priests wore black cloaks like cassocks and long gowns reaching to their feet, and some had hoods like those worn by canons, and others had smaller hoods like those worn by Dommicans, and they wore their hair very long, down to the waist, with some even reaching down to the feet, covered with blood and so matted together that it could not be separated, and their ears were cut to pieces by way of sacrifice, and they stank like sulphur, and they had another bad smell like carrion, and as they said, and we learnt that it was true, these priests were the sons of chiefs and they abstained from women, but they indulged in the cursed practice of sodomy, and they fasted on certain day?, and what I saw them eat was the pith or seeds of cotton when the cotton was being cleaned, but they may have eaten other things which I did not see. Let us leave the priests and go back to Cortes who made them a good speech through our...

Format: Paperback

Release: September 12, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781230220574

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