Years ago the romance of Spanish history was the great passion of my life. The grand old viceroys of Mexico, from the days of Cortez downward, were such a splendid set of marauders - so fired with chivalry, lust, and fanaticism; so wildly visionary to conceive, and so daring to execute - that, upon a general review of their exploits, which so long furnished food for my imagination, it is a matter of the most profound astonishment to myself that I have never turned my attention to piracy or highway robbery. No stronger proof of innate rectitude could possibly exist.
- J. Ross Browne, 1871
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