It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.
Conquered Aztec Empire
From his letters, expressing profound wonder and the limits of language in the face of the truly new upon encountering Tenochtitlan.
c. 1520 (describing Tenochtitlan)
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