H. Rider Haggard · 1893 · sea

H. Rider Haggard's 1893 adventure. Half-Spanish, half-English Thomas Wingfield sails from Elizabethan England to avenge his mother's murder, is shipwrecked and carried to the New World, and rises among the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan - marrying Montezuma's daughter and living through the coming of Cortés and the fall of the empire before he sails home.

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   London

   Where Thomas Wingfield sets out to hunt down the Spaniard who murdered his mother.

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   Cadiz

   The Spanish port where his vengeance leads him, and from which he is carried, a captive, to the Indies.

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   Hispaniola

   The Spanish Caribbean, way-station on his passage to the mainland of the Aztecs.

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   Veracruz

   The Mexican shore where Cortes lands, and where Wingfield's fate binds itself to Montezuma's doomed people.

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   Tenochtitlan

   The Aztec island-capital, where Wingfield weds Montezuma's daughter and witnesses the empire's destruction.