David Stuart

I read a little bit of it.

It does strike you as he was recounting whatever history he had.

And what was like the... I remember I read about Cortes and the Aztecs, and there was like the ritual human sacrifice.

Was that the Mayans?

Yeah, I mean, that's like pretty... I would say that's pretty common.

I mean, even the Spanish were like cutting people's heads off and hanging them on sticks.

I think the cannibalism thing is what gets people kind of... If they were, I don't know if they were munching.

Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.

I mean, even when they, because I know like when Cortez got there, he was, he hit the Yucatan first.

So I think didn't he interact with the Mayans or some offshoot?

Yeah, and a lot of the, there was two other expeditions that got pretty much thwarted the Spaniards before him, right?

Yeah.

That was, that was the one thing you always hear about Cortez where the, you know, popular consensus people say is like, Oh, he just like showed up and,

He tricked the guy and they handed it over to him.

It was like, no, it was a pretty long kind of like gruesome protracted battle for like, I mean, it was like years.

Years.

It really is kind of amazing, especially with the –

Who was the, I think Aguilar was the guy who got like stranded out there.

Father Aguilar got like stranded and like lived among them, spoke the language and like happened, you know, he was a slave for like six years.

Yeah.