Cortes in Gansevoort Melville's Index Rerum

Looking over my research notes from a visit way back when to the Berkshire Athenaeum, I am reminded that the 1837 Index Rerum of Herman's older brother Gansevoort Melville contains multiple entries on Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquest.  Gansevoort made several entries from book 5 of William Robertson's History of America, a work then available to the Melvilles in the library of the Albany Young Men's Association. The first page of the 1837 Catalog of Books shows item number

1049 America, Robertson's, 2 vols.

References to Robertson on the celebrated action by Cortes of scuttling his fleet appear in Gansevoort Melville's Index Rerum under the headings "Courage" and "Resolution":

Courage   remarkable of Cortes in destroying his fleet before marching to Mexico

Resolution   bold & determined, & unconquerable of Cortes in destroying his fleet

Gansevoort was not blind to the atrocities committed by conquistadors. Another entry, under the heading "Cruelty" in his 1837 Index Rerum:

Cruelty   of the Spaniards in Mexico—bloody—unnecessary & revolting—

 Too bad we don't have this many volumes of Todd's Index Rerum owned by Gansevoort Melville...

Only two are known to have survived. 

Related post:

• Cortez at Vera Cruz and Melville's Enthusiast
  https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2014/05/cortez-at-vera-cruz-and-caesars-burning.html