"No white man ever enters it" : the Yucatán Peninsula
"To serve God and . . . to get rich" : the lure of the New World
"It seemed the end of the world" : Balboa, Pizarro, and the perils of Darién
"It will never do to leave him here" : shipwreck, enslavement, and Hernán Cortés
"What would the Spanish say should they see me in this guise?" : Gonzalo among the Maya
"Language is the perfect instrument of empire" : Aguilar and the conquest of the Aztecs
"Gonzalo, my brother and special friend" : Guerrero the warrior and the battle for Yucatán
"The power of narrative is absolute" : Guerrero in the contemporary Mexican consciousness.