XIII.
Cortés [135]-144
Birth, [135]; enters the army, [135]; visits Cuba, [135]—An attractive portrait, [135]—Defects of character, [136]—Velasquez and Grijalva's expedition, [136]—A love story, [137]—Cortés receives a commission, [137]; his companions, [137]—Jealousy of Velasquez, [137]—The squadron, [138]—Jérome d' Aguilar, [138]—First conflict with the Aztecs, [139]—Palm Sunday, [139]—A happy people, [140]—Rumors of danger, [140]—Presents to the strangers, [141]—Cortés as Quetzalcoatl, [141]—Easter, [141]—A perplexed council, [142]—Mistaken policy, [142]—Vera Cruz, [142]—Cortés visits Cempoallan, [143]—Tlaxcalla, [143]—The ships destroyed, [144].