What we have to do now is to fight for our lives.

Even if these poor devils have right on their side, it is not a matter to stop and discuss, now.

So keep your breath for fighting.

I doubt not that we shall soon scatter them like chaff." But this was by no means the case, and it was only the intervention of Montezuma that saved the garrison from destruction.
The time until the arrival of Cortez had passed slowly.

The soldiers, weakened by hunger and thirst, muttered angrily against the officer who had so rashly brought them into this strait.