"And this here?" "For heaven's sake, cannibals!" "The discovery of cannibals around us was so disturbing that we hastily left this dreadful place." "January twentieth." "The mountains are now behind us and the land is flat." "The roof Aguirre had us build, protects us against the scorching sun." "The river is sluggish and we're slowly coming to a halt." "What's this?" "Are you giving him a gun?" "Aguirre, I know that you plan on doing something to Ursua!" "There's no doubt in my mind." "And God will punish you for that!" "Get out of my way!" "Are you alright, little one?" "What's happening?" "You can't hear a thing." "It's suddenly so quiet." "Yes, not a sound." "Shh... so, we can hear..." "The gunpowder!" "It's on fire!" "Out of the way!" "It's going to blow up!" "Grab the pole!" "Help me pull the Emperor onto the raft!" "Here, so he can hold on to it." "Damned horse nothing but trouble!" "What's wrong with him?" "He's dead." "Look how short the arrow is." "Poisoned." "It must belong to a dwarf." " Fire!" "Make some noise, quickly!" " What are we to aim at?" "Just shoot, you asshole!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Come, play something for the men." " Look, isn't that a canoe?" " Where?" "Over there under those trees, it's coming towards us." "Keep the raft mid-stream." "It could be a trap." "January twenty fourth." "For the first time, we saw two of the savages." "They seemed to be trusting." "Pull the boat close." "I have the man." "Hold him!" "And I have the woman." "Look, there's a fish!" "What did he say?" "He says he's from the Yagua Tribe." "He knows from his ancestors that one day, the Sons of the Sun would arrive from afar, through great perils." "The strangers would come with thunder from tubes." "They've waited a long time for the coming of the Sons of the Sun." "For here on this river, God never finished His Creation." "Look, gold!" "Where did you get that?" "Gold!" "Gold!" "Ask him where he got it from." "Ask him where El Dorado is." "Where does this gold come from?" "What did he say?" "Has this savage ever heard of our savior Jesus Christ and of our mission and the True Word of God?" "This is a Bible." "It contains the Word of God that we preach to bring light into the darkness of their world." "Does he understand at all, that this book contains the Word of God?" "Take it in your hand, my son." " He says, it doesn't talk." " Kill him for this blasphemy!" "It is a tough business." "These savages are hard to convert." "It won't be much longer." "El Dorado might be only a few days away." "No more rust on the cannon." "We will shoot our enemies with golden bullets." "And you, Okello, will serve my food on golden platters." "And all of us will gain something." "Governships provinces and women." "And perhaps I'll even be free." "Let's not forget the most important part of our mission to spread the Word of God to the savages." "I'm sure you'd like a golden cross studded with jewels, Carvajal instead of the silver one you lost." "All the land to our left and all the land to our right now belongs to us." "I solemnly and formally take possession of all this land." "Our country is already six times larger than Spain and every day we drift, makes it bigger." "Have you seen any solid ground that would support your weight?" "Okello, it's missing salt!" "Fish and fruit we can find now and then but we've been out of salt for a while." "We're down to counting our last grains of corn." " Hold the horse!" " The horse has cut loose!" " Take the reins!" " Watch out!" "Watch, that it doesn't jump off board!" "Damn, get that horse away from me!" "Get rid of it!" "Throw that damned beast off the raft!" "Go on!" "Go for a swim!" " It wants to get back on board." " Go away!" "I think he's a dead man." "In Mexico, I saw an army of Indians flee at the sight of one single horse." "And besides, we could have eaten meat for a week..." "Don't worry, little one, the horse will be alright." "Oh, my God, the Emperor!" "The Emperor is dead!" "After our Emperor's death, the fate of Ursua was sealed." "Next morning, a few soldiers took him away and he never came back." "Little mother, ...two by two wafts the wind on my hair." "What are they shouting?" "They're shouting, "Meat is floating by."" "Fire!" "Set the village on fire!" "Keep shooting, it'll scare them!" "Don't go into the jungle!" "Salt!" "Salt!" "I haven't had salt for a month!" "She has gone without a trace." "We couldn't find her anywhere." "We have not seen any Indians either." "Let's march back to Pizarro." "Two men, more or less, it won't matter to him." "I am sick of it." "I'm leaving tonight." "If I march at night, the Indians won't catch me." "In the day, I will hide." "I will get back to Pizarro." "We followed her tracks half a mile into the jungle, then we lost them." "She simply vanished!" "Then one of the men panicked because of the silence which always comes just before someone gets killed." "I'd rather join the Indians, than stay with this madman." "That man is a head taller than me." "That may change..." "I'll explain my plan." "I have counted the river bends." "I've drawn a map in the sand." "We need about a day for each bend." "One, two three, four, five six, seven eight nine ten." "I am the great traitor." "There can be no greater!" "Whoever even thinks about deserting will be cut into 198 pieces!" "And then trampled upon until you can paint the walls with him." "Whoever eats one grain too many or drinks one drop of water too much will be locked up for 155 years!" "If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees the birds will drop dead from the trees." "I am the Wrath of God!" "The earth I walk upon sees me and quakes!" "But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches." "But whoever deserts..." "Get away from the tree!" "Go to mid-stream!" " Hey, give me a pole!" " Watch out, the roof!" "Watch out, the sedan-chair is falling!" "Careful!" "Over there." "The long arrows are getting fashionable..." " Indians!" " Where?" "I don't see any." " Make noise!" " I better get out of here." "February first." "The men's morale is at a low point." "I spoke with Aguirre." "Things are not turning out as we expected." "We see nothing but hunger and death." "We lose men, but we never see the enemy." "Even El Dorado hasn't been more than an illusion." "Mexico was no illusion!" "If we turn back now, others will come." "And they will succeed!" "And we'll remain a failure!" "Even if this land only consists of trees and water we will conquer it!" "And it'll be milked dry by those who follow us." "My men measure riches in gold." "It is more." "It is power and fame." "I despise them for it." "I am sure, Aguirre is leading us into destruction." "I almost feel, he does it deliberately." "We can't even get ashore, since the river flooded the jungle for miles." "February twenty-second." "The suffering is dreadful." "Most men have fever and hallucinations." "Hardly anyone can stand upright." "The soldier Justo Gonzales drank my ink, thinking it was medicine." "I can no longer write." "We are drifting in circles." "I see a ship with sails in a tall tree and from the stern hangs a canoe." "The ship is in your imagination." "No floodwaters could rise this high." "We all have the fever." "It is only a mirage." "These things happen when people are overly exhausted." "Shut up, monk!" "We'll get that ship!" "It is real!" "We'll sail to the Atlantic with it." "No, Lope de Aguirre, I won't go with you." "We are weak and hungry." "That is no ship." "That is no forest." "That is no arrow." "We just imagine the arrows, because we fear them." "These arrows are real, take cover!" "This arrow can't harm me." "This is not rain." "Monk, do not forget to pray, lest God's end will be uncomely." "When we reach the sea we will build a bigger ship sail north and take Trinidad from the Spanish crown." "From there we'll sail on and take Mexico from Cortez." "What great treachery this will be!" "Then, all of New Spain will be in our hands and we'll stage history like others stage plays." "I, the Wrath of God will marry my own daughter and with her I will found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen." "Together we shall rule this entire continent." "We will endure." "I am the Wrath of God!" "Who else is with me?"