It is completly distirbing to me the treatment of the Aztecs during that time in 1519. As I read the accounts of Fray Bernardino, I couldn't believe how people could do such a thing to a people. The spaniards had no sympathy for anyone and slashed people to death and slit their bodies open. The Aztecs did nothing to deserve that treatment and as I read on , I felt more and more sad and in a state of disbelif. I have always known what happend when the spainards came, and what happend to the Aztecs , but until reading this it never really occured to me that that time period was so gruesome and brutal. Fray Bernardino, really gave such a clear describtion of everything, and I could imagine everything going on as if it was right in front of me. When he said that " Moctezuma himself wept in distress he felt for his city" it made the whole situation tragic to me- to see a man of power feel so overwhelmed and hopless to the point of tears. And when Bernardino described the fathers running their hands over their son's hair and smoothing it and saying " Woe, my beloved sons! How can what we fear be happening in your time?,"it made me feel more and more helpless. The whole account of the spanish conquest of the Aztecs was depressing, but I'm glad that I read it because I've never read history that real. It's one thing to read history that just tells what happened , but it is so different to read the acutual accounts in such detail