sima

The staple food is "sima", a maize flour mixed with water.

“Mar�a pur�sima,” he exclaimed, “you cannot mean, se�orita, that you, all alone, will deliver the City of Mexico into our hands?”

Maria Sant�sima; look at my poor brother all alone without the power to speak or rise!

I refer to the colored regiments, who occupied the right and left flanks of us at Gu�simas, the Ninth and Tenth cavalry regiments.

This sima is sometimes continued along the long sides of the building, and sometimes not.