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| | Hernando Cortes |
 | | Cortes here learned that the native sovereign was called Montezuma; that he reigned over an extensive empire, which had lasted for three centuries; that thirty vassals, called caciques, obeyed him; and that his riches were immense and his power absolute. |
 | | Cortes returned to Mexico with new titles but diminished authority, a viceroy having been entrusted with the administration of civil affairs, while the military department, with permission to push his conquests, was all that remained to Cortes. |
 | | Cortes dissembled, redoubled the assiduity of his attendance on the emperor, accompanied him in the disastrous expedition to Algiers in 1541, served as a volunteer, and had a horse killed under him. |
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