Hernan Cortes Quotes
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
Cortés, Hernán. Letters of Cortes: The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V. Translated by Francis Augustus MacNutt, vol. 1, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908, p. 267.
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.