They called this country Anahuac and they meant the same that years afterward Hernando Cortes found.

But we did not know this.

We did not know that strange people and their great treasure.
The Admiral looked out to sea.

"I have cried, 'West--west--west!' through a-many years! Yucatan! But I make out no sea-passage thence into Vasco da Gama's India! And I am sworn to the Queen and King Ferdinand this time to find it.

So it's south, it's south, brother and son!" So, our casks being full, our fruit gathered, the sky clear and the wind fair, we left the west to others and sailed to find the strait in the south.