While supper was preparing, orders were given to show them the city, where they saw public structures that reared their lofty heads to the clouds; the marketplaces decorated with a thousand columns; fountains of spring water, besides others of rose water, and of liquors drawn from the sugarcane, incessantly flowing in the great squares, which were paved with a kind of precious stones that emitted an odor like that of cloves and cinnamon.
Entre tanto les enseñáron la ciudad, los edificios públicos que escalaban las nubes, las plazas de mercado ornadas de mil colunas, las fuentes de agua clara, las de agua rosada, las de licores de caña, que sin parar corrian en vastas plazas empedradas con una especie de piedras preciosas que esparcian un olor parecido al del clavo y la canela.