text:  In the Alhondega we found a thousand young girls in a state--God be merciful to our poor souls! The Gachupins had first brutally outraged and then slain them but slain them in a manner--_Jesus Maria y Jose!_ Can it be true that Spaniards are born of woman? Senores! on the market-place alone fourteen thousand Mexicans young women matrons and children and men both young and old had been butchered with every refinement of cruelty