Seek not the cause, for the Almighty Who gave the heart its infinite power of pain alone can answer, and to our ears He is dumb.
Then I took a mattock and dug a hole outside the house till I came to water, which in Tenoctitlan is found at a depth of two feet or so.

And, having muttered a prayer over him, there in the water I laid the body of our child, burying it out of sight.

At the least he was not left for the zapilotes, as the Aztecs call the vultures, like the rest of them.
After that we wept ourselves to sleep in each other's arms, Otomie murmuring from time to time, 'Oh! my husband, I would that we were asleep and forgotten, we and the babe together.' 'Rest now,' I answered, 'for death is very near to us.' The morrow came, and with it a deadlier fray than any that had gone before, and after it more morrows and more deaths, but still we lived on, for Guatemoc gave us of his food.

Then Cortes sent his heralds demanding our surrender, and now three-fourths of the city was a ruin, and three-fourths of its defenders were dead.

The dead were heaped in the houses like bees stifled in a hive, and in the streets they lay so thick that we walked upon them.
The council was summoned--fierce men, haggard with hunger and with war, and they considered the offer of Cortes.
'What is your word, Guatemoc ?' said their spokesman at last.
'Am I Montezuma, that you ask me?
I swore to defend this city to the last,' he answered hoarsely, 'and, for my part, I will defend it.