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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: protected by painted wooden helms, crested with hair, and fashioned
like the heads of pumas, snakes, or wolves--others wore escaupils,
or coats of quilted cotton, but the most of them were naked except
for a cloth about the loins. On the flat azoteas, or roofs of
houses also, and even on the top of the teocalli of sacrifice, were
bands of men whose part it was to rain missiles into the Spanish
quarters. It was a strange sight to see in that red sunrise, and
one never to be forgotten, as the light flashed from temples and
palace walls, on to the glittering feather garments and gay
banners, the points of countless spears and the armour of the
Spaniards, who hurried to and fro behind their battlements making
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