After several years living in Cuba Hernan Cortez lived as a king would but he still felt that there was something else out there that he needed to find in order to feel completely happy. The governor of Cuba, (Diego Velasquez) heard the report that Francisco Hernandez Cordoba did on his founding of the new territory and soon Velazquez wanted to find out if this …show more content…
His crew consisted of “550 soldiers, 100 sailors, 16 horsemen, 10 brass guns, 4 small cannons.” (R. Conrad Stein Pg.19) When Hernan Cortes arrived at Yucatan peninsula he was meet by one European survivor from a shipwreck 7 years earlier. That man was Jeronimo de Aguilar which learned the language of the Mayan and could translate it into Spanish became the first stokes of Cortes luck. De Aguilar became Cortez interpreter with the Tabascans. As a custom Tabascans presented Spaniards with a gift of a woman, and in this case was La Malinche, Malina or Malinali. The Spaniards baptized Malinali with a Spanish name, Marina. She became Cortes interpreter because she was a native girl who knew many languages that would help Hernan Cortez with