midday
And so they went , though what became of them I do not know . That night we spent in the courtyard of the teocalli , but before it was light I caused the women and children who remained with us , perhaps some six hundred in all , for very few of the former who were unmarried , or who being married were still young and comely , had chosen to desert our refuge , to ascend the pyramid , guessing that the Spaniards would attack us at dawn . I stayed , however , with the three hundred fighting men that were left to me , a hundred or more having thrown themselves upon the mercy of the Spaniards , with the refugees , to await the Spanish onset under shelter of the walls of the courtyard . At dawn it began , and by midday , do what we could to stay it , the wall was stormed , and leaving nearly a hundred dead and wounded behind me , I was driven to the winding way that led to the summit of the pyramid . Here they assaulted us again , but the road was steep and narrow , and their numbers gave them no great advantage on it , so that the end of it was that we beat them back with loss , and there was no more fighting that day . The night which followed we spent upon the summit of the pyramid , and for my part I was so weary that after I had eaten I never slept more soundly . Next morning the struggle began anew ; and this time with better success to the Spaniards .