Now I would humbly suggest that your worship yourself should seek out rich lands and learn to govern them wisely.” Catching the significance of the words, Cortés replied: “Let God only grant success to our arms, as he did to Paladin Roldan, and with such gentlemen as yourself to aid me I shall well know what to do.”
Gliding past islas Blanca and Verde, the fleet anchored behind San Juan de Ulua late on Thursday in passion week.
FOOTNOTES
[104] ‘Qustando ... en la cibdad de Sto Domingo vibiendo con el Almirante.’ Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, pp. xi. 61; Juarros, Guat., i. 252.
[105] ‘Todos hermanos, que fue el Capitan Pedro de Aluarado, y Gonçalo de Aluarado, y Jorge de Aluarado, y Gonçalo [Alonzo] y Gomez, è Juan de Alvarado el viejo, que era bastardo.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 14.
[106] See Native Races, iii. 109 and 183. ‘Biondo.’ Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 8. Elaborating this, Brasseur de Bourbourg says, ‘Aux cheveux blonds et coloré de visage, ce qui lui fit donner par les Tlaxcaltèques le surnom de Tonatiuh.’ Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 53. But the authority for calling him blonde is not mentioned. It may rest on mere tradition. A Mexican picture gives him dark beard and a yellow helmet or head-dress, the same colors being given to the beard and head-dress of figures representing the Spanish troops. Ramirez is rather inclined to doubt the authenticity of the portrait so frequently copied from Cortina’s copper-plates, representing him as of dark complexion, with long, meagre, pointed face, very high forehead, stubbed hair, mustache, and imperial. Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, pp. xi. xxii. 277-82, with plates. Prescott’s Mex. (Mex. 1844), i. 458; Id. (Gondra ed.), iii. 220; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., ii. 340, 686, with signature. A wood-cut in Armin, Alte Mex., 222, presents a much younger man, with a round, handsome face, curled hair, and full, curled beard. This corresponds more to the description given in the text, but the authority is not indicated. Zamacois, Hist. Méj., ii. 484, gives a full-length portrait corresponding to this.
[107] Helps, Cortés, ii. 163, compares him to Murat, Cortés being the Napoleon. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 15, 240, 245.
[108] Montejo, Memorial al Emp., 1545, in Cent. Amer., 1545-55, MS. 130. ‘Fué uno de aquellos mílites que passaron á estas partes ... mill é quinientos y catorçe, é aquel mesmo año ... fuésse de la Tierra-Firma ... é passóse á la isla de Cuba.’ Oviedo, iii. 217.
[109] See Hist. Cent. Am., this series, i., 524-32. ‘Era estremado varon, mas no era para mandar, sino para ser mãdado, y era de edad de treinta y seis años, natural de cerca de Baeza ò Linares.... Tenia otras buenas codiciones, de ser franco.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 177. ‘Era vn Hector en el esfuerço, para combatir persona por persona.’ Id., 240. ‘Natural que fue de Vbeda ò de Linares.’ Id., 241. ‘Da Baeza nell’Andaluzia. Era membruto, ombroso, e doppio.’ Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 8. ‘D’une laideur extrême; sa duplicité et sa fourberie le rendaient un homme peu sur,’ says Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 53, with his not unusual hasty elaboration. Portrait in Prescott’s Mex. (Mex. 1844), i. 421; also in Zamacois, Hist. Méj., iv. 254.
[110] Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 240, 246; Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 8; Portrait and signature in Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., ii. 254, 686. Portrait in Zamacois, Hist. Méj., ii. 485, and in Armin, Alte Mex., 217.