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Excerpt from Hernando Cortés: Conqueror of Mexico
Hernando Cortés was seven years Old when America was discovered by Columbus. Unlike the great navigator who revealed a new continent to Europe, he was a native of Spain, and inland born. His eyes first Opened to the light in the mountain hamlet Of Medellin, in Estremadura, which is scarce ly better known today than it was in that far distant time when the event occurred which constitutes almost its only claim to fame.
Very little is known Of his youth, but at the age Of fourteen he might have been found in the famous university Of Salamanca, whence, although his parents indulged in great expectations for their precocious son, he eventually returned to his home, without having accomplished anything at all to his credit, except the writing of Latin, prose and verse, indifferently well.
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