The pleasant historie of the conquest of the West India, : now called New Spaine. atchieued by the most woorthie prince Hernando Cortes ... (1596)
López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB · London : Printed by Thomas Creede · leaf 414
396 The Conqueſt of . thofe childꝛen were in company with the Goddes of the lake. So that, that daye was ſpente in keaſting in te temples, and annsinting the Idols cheekes, with gum called Vili. There were ſome Images that had their laces two inches thicke with thatgum, I! be order of certaine… … there al their life time, although among them were ſeme olde women. Some entered into thoſe religious toutes being ficke and diſeaſed, hoping there to retouer they3 health: others tame thither thꝛough pure nade, and ne⸗ kellitie, te be there relieued: other ſome tame thither te be god and vertuous:…
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1596
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