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"The gold, silver, jewels, bucklers, and garments which we are sending to Your Royal Highness with these representatives, over and above the one-fifth which belong to Your Majesty, Hernando Cortes and the council of this town offer in Your services and are sending together with a list ..." Fernando Cortez wrote in 1519. Following the first fabulous shipment, the Conquistadors looted the treasures of Montezuma until only one hoard remained. Teudile, servant of Montezuma, secretly tried to ship the hoard to Spain, but the caravels were lost at sea. The location of the treasure was an unsolvable mystery. Unsolvable, that is, until Tony Carter found Teudile's diary, charting where the ships went down. However, he was not the only one with an interest in finding the last of the Aztec gold...