Every kind of merchandise is sold in a particular street or quarter assigned to it exclusively, and thus the best order is preserved.
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There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.Hernando Cortes
All these towers are the burial places of the nobles, and every chapel in them is dedicated to a particular idol, to which they pay their devotions.
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The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
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The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
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This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
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