Visiting Vera Cruz (1946)

James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Vera Cruz harbor comes into view] 

  Narrator : This is the historic old harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico's chief port of entry and the original starting point of the Spanish conquest. For it was in this locale over four centuries ago that Cortez, with his valiant band of Spanish conquistadores, met the representatives of Moctezuma and later followed them 300 miles inland to the Aztec capital, which is now known as the City of Mexico.

• [last lines] 

  [aboard a fishing boat] 

  Narrator : And so the fishing goes in the historic waters around Vera Cruz, waters that abound in fish, as well as relics of history. For down deep on the ocean floor, over which fishermen silent cast their lines, there may be found a scattered assortment of iron and stone cannonballs, bayonets, and numerous other relics of a stormy past that gringos like to hear about when they visit Vera Cruz.