History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521Bancroft, Hubert Howe
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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Mexico -- History
84; _Newe Zeittung von
Jucatan_, 1, etc.; _Monglave_, _Résumé_, 41-6; _March y
Labores_, _Marina Española_, i. 463-4; _Cortesii_, _von dem
Newen Hisp._, pt. ii. 2-5; _Morelli_, _Fasti Novi Orbis_,
16; _Armin_, _Alte Mex._, 77-8; _Touron_, _Hist. Gen. Am._,
iii. 58-78; _Bussierre_, _l’Empire Mex._, 193-9; _Sandoval_,
_Hist. Carlos V._, i. 161-2; _Cortés_, _Hist. Mex._, 30-110;
_Campe_, _Hist. Descub. Am._, ii. 7-19; _Cortés_, _Aven. y
Conq._, 12-13; _Stephens’ Incid. of Travel in Yuc._, ii.
366-9; _Drake’s Voy._, 161-3; _Hart’s Tabasco_, 4-5; _La
Cruz_, v. 541-4; _Nouvelles An. des Voy._, xcvii. 30-1,
and clxiv. 101; and _Manzi_, _Conq. di Mess._, 1-3.
[48] Called Borrego, says Torquemada, i. 361. Bernal Diaz
gives Borrego as the second surname.
[49] Bernal Diaz says Augustin Bermudez.
[50] Las Casas regarded him as a schemer, and often warned
Velazquez against ‘Veintidos años de Italia.’ _Hist. Ind._,
iv. 447. He calls him likewise ‘Burgalés’ and ‘hombre
astutísimo.’
[51] ‘Que partirian,’ says Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 13,
‘entre todos tres la ganancia del oro, y plata, y joyas,
de la parte que le cupiesse á Cortés,’ and also, growls
Las Casas, _ubi supra_—knowledge of the facts as yet being
but rumor—what Cortés could steal from the king and the
governor was subject to division, beside what he would rob
from the natives.
[52] Hernan, Hernando, Fernan, Fernando, Ferdinando. The
names are one. With no special preference, I employ the
first, used by the best writers. Among the early authorities,
Solis, the Spanish translator of _De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi
Cortesii_, and many others, write Hernan; Pizarro y Orellana,
_Varones Ilvstres_, Fernan; Bernal Diaz and Oviedo, Hernando;
Gomara, Fernando. In accordance with the Spanish usage of adding
the mother’s surname, he is sometimes, though rarely, called
Cortés y Pizarro. For portrait and signature I refer the
reader to _Alaman_, _Disert._, i. app. i. 15-16; portrait
as an old man; _Clavigero_, _Storia Mess._, iii. 6-8;
_Prescott’s Mex._, iii. 1; _Id._, (ed. Mex., 1846, iii.
210-11); _Armin_, _Alte Mex._, 82, plate from the painting
in the Concepcion Hospital at Mexico; _March y Labores_,
_Marina Española_, i. 466.
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