The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
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There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.Hernando Cortes
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
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As to the other remarkable things that the emperor had in his city for his amusement, I can only say that they were numerous and of various kinds.
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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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Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
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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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