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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER IV.
THE HERO OF THE CONQUEST.
Birthplace of Heman Cortés — His Coming Compensatory for the Devil-sent Luther — Parentage — Herman a Sickly Child — Saint Peter his Patron — He is sent to Salamanca — Returns Home — Thinks of Córdoba and Italy — And of Ovando and the Indies — Chooses the Latter — Narrow Escape during a Love Intrigue — Ovando Sails without Him — Cortés Goes to Valencia — Is there Ill — Returns Home — Finally Sails for the Indies — His Reception at Santo Domingo — He Fights Indians under Velazquez, and is Given an Encomienda — Goes to Cuba with Velazquez — Makes Love to Catalina Suarez — But Declines to Marry — Velazquez Insists — Cortés Rebels — Seizures, Imprisonments, Escapes, and Reconciliation 41
CHAPTER V.
SAILING OF THE EXPEDITION.
1518-1519.
The Quality of Leader Desired — Instructions Issued to Hernan Cortés, Commander-in-chief — The Character of Cortés Undergoes a Change — Cost of the Expedition — By whom Borne — Places Established for Enlistment — The Banner — Cortés Puts on the Great Man — More of his Character — The Scene at Santiago Harbor — The Governor's Jester — Dark Suspicions of Velazquez — Departure from Santiago — Cortés at Trinidad — Fresh Recruits — Verdugo Receives Orders to Depose Cortés — The Fleet Proceeds to San Cristóbal, or the Habana — Review at Guaguanico — Speech of Cortés — Organization into Companies — Departure from Cuba 53
CHAPTER VI.
THE VOYAGE.
1519.
Something of the Captains of Cortés — Alvarado — Montejo — Ávila — Olid — Sandoval — Leon — Ordaz — Morla — The Passage — The Fleet Struck by a Squall — Arrival at Cozumel — Alvarado Censured — Search for the Captive Christians — Arrival of Aguilar — His Chaste Adventures — They Come to Tabasco River — Battles there — Conquest of the Natives — Peace Made — Twenty Female Slaves among the Presents — The Fleet Proceeds along the Shore — Puertocarrero's Witticism — Arrival at San Juan de Ulua 73