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We sat down & ordered Chocolate, which was very firm, also a peculiar kind of bread to eat with it. Visited the Library which is a very thick stone-walled building, very old having been at one time a Church. We here saw the tomb of the Wife of Cortez & read the inscription on the slab--she died 18th Dec. 1663--In the Library was quite a collection Aztec curiosities among them Iron stirrups each weighing several pounds. Dr Trowbridge, the American consul here took us up to his house, where we met his Wife & daughters & had an opportunity to see the interior of one of the houses--The stair way