I would it had all been finished on the causeway, but there can be no doubt as to the result.
"At most there are but four hundred Whites and four thousand Tlascalans, while we shall number over one hundred thousand.

They say the white men have lost not only their great guns, but those they carry on their shoulders; and that only twenty or thirty of their strange animals have survived.

Therefore, this time, we shall fight with something like equal arms, and shall overwhelm them as the sea overwhelms the rock." "Your simile is an unfortunate one, Cuitcatl.

The sea covers the rock, but when it retires the rock remains.

Still, it does seem to me that, however valiantly the Spaniards may fight, they cannot withstand such terrible odds.
"But I cannot rejoice with you.