By the side of such horrible slaughter as this, the murder of six hundred, the other day, was but a drop in the ocean of blood annually shed here." "Had it been in battle, it would have been nothing," Malinche said.
"Had they offered them up at the altars of the gods, the people would have understood it, for they do it themselves; but this was a foul act of treachery.

Who, after this, can believe in the promises of the whites?
"I know the people.

You whites despise them, because they have hitherto allowed themselves to be subdued without resistance; but now that their first awe of the Spaniards has died away, and they have nerved themselves to take up arms, you will find that they are brave.

I see nothing but trouble before us.

Cortez feels confident that he can easily repulse any attack, and subdue the city and the country round; but I do not think so." "Nor do I, Malinche.