Bücher von Hernan Cortes

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1868 volume contains the first English translation of Hernan Cortes' 1526 report to Emperor Charles V on his expedition from Mexico to Honduras to subdue the rebellion in the Spanish colony which had been founded there. The colony was used to supply native workers for the Spanish Caribbean plantations, and was a recurring source of trouble for its overlords. The early years of Spanish colonisation in Central and South America were marked by power-struggles between the Conquistadors themselves, as this account shows.

Entiendo además que, la experiencia de haber emigrado al viejo continente, atraído tal vez por lo desconocido y para satisfacer uno de sus sueños, además de haber experimentado una cultura diferente a la materna, pudo darle una visión más amplia y clara del ser humano, para lograr entender en profundidad la problemática global que se plantea en la nueva era, sobre la movilidad de las gentes que migran de un continente a otro y con la ilusión de proponer un nuevo mundo, sino ideal, por lo menos mejor, cuando en cada ser se renueven los valores humanos y el deseo de dar oportunidad a la humanidad de gozar de los bienes materiales que brinda la naturaleza. En cada uno de sus sonetos se encontrará una moraleja, que representa una luz de esperanza.