Hernán Cortés

MOST SACRED MAJESTY :-On the 23rd day of the month of October of the year 1525 past, I dispatched from the town of Trujillo, off the port and cape of Honduras, to the Hispaniola, a vessel, and in her a servant of mine, with orders to pass over the those kingdoms of Spain.

— from The fifth letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, containing an account of his expedition to Honduras, 1970