Still she recovered to my great thankfulness and joy, and though I am no clerk I baptized the boy into the Christian Church with my own hand, naming him Thomas after me.
Now day by day and week by week the fighting went on with varying success, sometimes in the suburbs of the city, sometimes on the lake, and sometimes in the very streets.

Time on time the Spaniards were driven back with loss, time on time they advanced again from their different camps.

Once we captured sixty of them and more than a thousand of their allies.

All these were sacrificed on the altar of Huitzel, and given over to be devoured by the Aztecs according to the beastlike custom which in Anahuac enjoined the eating of the bodies of those who were offered to the gods, not because the Indians love such meat but for a secret religious reason.
In vain did I pray Guatemoc to forego this horror.
'Is this a time for gentleness ?' he answered fiercely.

'I cannot save them from the altar, and I would not if I could.