...ten or twelve paces in width, and about twelve feet in depth, and which, far from being filled up, had been passed upon wood and reeds, and was entirely...no time to remedy this lamentable error, for when Cortez arrived near this " bridge of affliction," as he calls it, he saw many of the Spaniards and...

...ten or twelve paces in width, and about twelve feet in depth, and which, far from being rilled up, had been passed upon wood and reeds, and was entirely...no time to remedy this lamentable error, for when Cortez arrived near this " bridge of affliction," as he calls it, he saw many of the Spaniards and...

...ten or twelve paces in width, and about twelve feet in depth, and which, far from being filled up, had been passed upon wood and reeds, and was entirely...no time to remedy this lamentable error, for when Cortez arrived near this "bridge of affliction," as he calls it, he saw many of the Spaniards and the...

...and which, far from being filled up with solid material, had been passed upon wood and reeds, which was entirely insecure in case of retreat. The Spaniards,...affliction/ as he calls it, he saw many of the Spaniards vand the allies retreating toward it, and when he came up close to it, he found the bridge-way broken...

...and which, far from being filled up with solid material, had been passed upon wood and reeds, which was entirely insecure in case of retreat. The Spaniards, 'intoxicated with victory,' as their Commander 208 South American Fights and Fighters describes them, had rushed on, imagining that they left behind...