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us now look into the life of this Cuban magistrate, so suddenly raised to prominence.

Medellin, a small town of Estremadura, Spain, was the birthplace of Hernan Cortés, and 1485 the year in which he was born — miraculously born, as Mendieta and others believe, and perhaps by way of compensation for the appearing about this time of Martin Luther. The shade of Montezuma, peradventure,

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