Chapter Thrirteen The Englishmen and Cortez by Peter Romanowsky

Page thirteen The Englishmen and Cortaz by Peter Romanowsky a work in progress about the shipwreacked Englishmen that reached Mexico City before Cortez and first known white Feathedered  Quetzel the Feathered Serpent King who ruled the land until driven by jealous Princes to build a Bark and sail Westward prophesying  that he or his descended would return at such and such time the year that Cortez appeared and but the Englishmen appeared first and made it too Mexico City before Cortez that same year and was thought at first to be the one by the Tabasco tribe on which he landed on shore as the sole survivor of the Shipwreak the Dove and after bring taken in by the tribe they bowed to him at first and when eventually his welcome was being worn thin and talk among jealous Princes again and the Priests talking about sacrificing him too thier War God or any other bloody diety that they worshiped and after living among the local tribal nation and being treated well he met a slave girl that in the future would become Cortez's translator for he knowledge of Aztec and being one the daughter of a local Aztec King who was sold by her mother after remarrying the next King and had a son and did not want her to inherite nothing with her new son and not so strange an act in Pagan Aztec times to even sell children to be sacrificed too the rain God during times of drought and concorsly learned to speak Aztec from her but her knowledge or learning of English from him was limited and when eventually she was given to Cortez as a gift with nineteen other women too Cortez's troops as domestics after being attacked and winning the battle with the tribe and gifts were exchanged and peace being made and furthermore while searching for six shipwrecked Spainards that came to his attention after a fact finding mission brought the news to Cortez while still in Cuba who raised a fleet with a few hundred armed men and cannons to go on a survey and trading mission too the coast of Mexico after another ship that went before him to trade and survey the coast and brought back much gold in trade for glass beads and other goods with the locals and excited much Cortez and his men to sail to the coast of Mexico and former crew members of first ship joined to go back. Meanwhile the Englishmen voluntarily went with Azteck traders to Mexico City where he eventually was fallen in love by the niece of Montazuma the King of Speaker of Mexico City if which all Kings were actually called Speakers of the people and the niece was the daughter of another local King or speaker close by on shore from Mexico City of which was built in the middle of a salt lake with three major couseways from land too the city and meanwhile Cortz leaving Cuba under the nose of his nemesis the Govenor of Cuba of which Cortez helped to conquer and then eventuall fell out with the Governor and much drama and intrigue and even imprisonment by the Governor and his escape from a ship in shackels and being ready to deport him for trial for trumped up reasons and jealousy for his successes and government notetry as educated in letters in Spain, to be shipped back to the Dominican Island for trial for being insubordinate and treasonuous and but made his escape from the prison ship back to land from mooring and found sanctuary in a Church of which law no one could arrest under the law of the land. Eventually the Governor and him made peace and after cultivating his lands and gold mines restored to him and becoming rich and building a fleet of ships and an army to explore the virtually unknown coast of Aztec Mexico and after falling out with the Governor and Elders who originally appointed or allowed him to be the general of the expedition or which Cotez and his friends and partners primarily financed the Governor tried to appoint and General to lead the expedition and Cortez had none of this and sailed off without his permission and basically said catch me if you can for we are off and the famous words were said to the Governor as he pleaded with him fro. a rowboat within earshot of Cortez on his flagship anchored off shore and sailing along the coast of Cuba picking up supplies for the journey and riding on a horse caught up with Cortez and Cortez said those famous words that somtimes one must act without thinking and he was off with the wind and blown off course and anchored in the Yucatan off the village or shores that the Englishmen was shipwrecked and met the slave girl who could speak Azect and a Catholic Priest that was sipwreacked also along the way that paddled out to his ship and was rescued and one of two survivors of a ship wreacked company of six of which were possibly sacrificeand eaten and escaped to another village where his lone surviving friend married and became a native Chieftain and but the Priest refused to assimilate and could speak Aztec now also and could communicate as a go between with the former slave girl of which could understand the complex dialect between the two Mayan and Aztec  languages or dialects and become one language from the mouth of Cortez and the people they would meet as Cortez spoke to the Priest in Spanish and the Priest would translate to La Melinchie the slave girl who then would speak to the locals on behalf of Cortez and eventually she would become a Catholic and given the Christian name Donna Marie and eventually became known as not only the Speaker for Cortez but also an Evangelist for at least the nominal Catholic Christian faith of which many Aztecs converted under her great aura and respect for her as the mouthpiece or speaker for Cortez and eventually became endowed with the respect of what's known as an Aztec speaker equivalent to being an Aztec Queen under Cortez the King or Speaker and Governor of Mexico after conquering Aztec Mexico City, the capital of the Aztec Empire after first taking it peacefully and then driven out of the city and him returning with a larger army of Spaniards and local won over Aztecs and Allies who hated the Aztecs for thier cruelties and human sacrifices and canabilism and child sacrifices ....