Tobacco

y mas digo, que se me avia olvidado, que Es bien tornallo a rreçitar, y es, que le servian al monteçuma, estando a la mesa quãdo comia como dicho tengo, otras dos mugeres muy agraçiadas, de traer tortillas amasadas con huevos y otras Cosas sustançiosas, y heran muy blancas las tortillas y trayanselas en vnos platos cobijado con sus paños linpios, y tanbien le trayan otra manera de pan, que son como bollos largos hechos y amasados Con otra manera de cosas sustançiales, y pan pachol que en esta trra asi se dize, ques a manera de vnas obleas tanbien le ponian en la mesa, tres cañutos, muy pintados y dorados, y dentro tenian liquidanbar, rrebuelto con vnas yervas, que se dize tabaco, E quando acabava de comer despues que le avian baylado, y cantado, y alçado la mesa, tomava el humo de vno de aquellos cañutos y muy poco, y con ello se adormia.

And I must add something I had forgotten, which it is right to go back and tell. While Montezuma sat at table eating, as I have described, two other very graceful women served him. They brought tortillas kneaded with eggs and other nourishing things. These tortillas were very white, and they brought them on plates covered with clean cloths. They also brought him another kind of bread, like long rolls, kneaded with other nourishing things, and pan pachol, as it is called in this land, which is like wafers. They also set on the table three tubes, much painted and gilded, which held liquidambar mixed with some herbs they call tobacco. When he had finished eating, and they had danced and sung for him and cleared the table, he drew in the smoke from one of those tubes, only a little, and with that he fell asleep.

pã que gasto yo tantas palabras, de lo q̃ vendian En aquella gran plaça porques para no acavar tan presto de contar por menudo todas las cosas, sino que papel, que En esta trra llaman amal, y vnos cañutos de olores, con liquidanbar, llenos de tabaco, y otros vnguentos amarillos y cosas deste arte, vendian por si, e vendian mucha grana debajo los portales, que Estavan En aquella gran plaça, avia muchos erbolarios y mercaderias de otra manera y tenian alli sus casas a donde juzgavan tres juezes, y otros como alguaziles, Esecutores, que miravan las mercaderias.

But why do I spend so many words on what they sold in that great square? I would never finish if I told every thing in detail. I will say only that paper, which in this land they call amal, and reed tubes of perfume with liquidambar, filled with tobacco, and yellow ointments and such things, were sold by themselves. Much cochineal was sold under the arcades of that great square. There were many sellers of healing herbs, and goods of other kinds. And they had buildings there where three judges sat in judgment, and others like constables, who inspected the goods.