This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. First person narration by Thomas Wingfl eld, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery as he searches for the Spanish villian who killed Thomas' mother. He is relating the story 70 years after it opens in 1578. Thomas' revenge quest takes him to Mexico becoming involved with Cortez as Thomas sides with the Aztecs.