All language subtitles for The Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E02 Crossing the Atlantic

It is the 16th century.

From all over Europe, great ships sail
west to conquer the new world, the

Americas. The men eager to seek their
fortune, to find new adventures in new

lands. They long to cross uncharted seas
and discover unknown countries, to find

secret gold on a mountain trail high in
the Andes.

They dream of following the path of the
setting sun that leads to El Dorado.

And the mysterious cities of gold.

Children of the sun. See your time has
just begun.

Searching for your ways.

Through adventures every day. Every day
and night.

With the...

With all your friends in tow, you search
for the cities of gold.

Ah, wishing for the cities of

gold.

Ah,

something we will find, the cities of
gold.

Father Rodriguez, who looked after
Esteban since he was a baby, tells him a

great secret on his deathbed.

Somewhere his father may still be alive.

So Esteban decides to begin his search
in the new world. With the help of

Mendoza, a mysterious man who claims to
have rescued him as a baby, Esteban

hides at the stowaway aboard the
Esperanza.

As they are about to set sail, he meets
a young Inca girl, Zia.

may never see barcelona again not for
months and months it's the city festival

today yes i'd like to have stayed

Esperanza's leaving Barcelona.

Look, the cathedral's getting smaller
and smaller.

Watch out, Esteban.

Oops. Oh, you're right. I forgot I was
supposed to wait for Mendoza's signal

before I came out.

on the side of the ship.

Huh?

If a storm hits us, we could be in for
trouble.

Know what, Zia? I'll bet no one on the
whole ship knows we're here.

Wait a second. Where did you get that
medallion?

Look. It's just like mine.

See this?

I've had it since I was a baby. It was
around my neck when they found me.

They're exactly alike, but yours doesn't
have the bit in the middle, the sun.

Mendoza has it. He took it when I was a
baby, when he saved me from drowning.

I don't like Mendoza. He's a wicked man.

He's not as bad as all that.

After all, he saved my life and arranged
for me to hide aboard this ship to make

the crossing. Maybe, but he's the man
who kidnapped me so he could steal the

treasure from my people.

What?

He's like all the Spaniards. All Mendoza
cares about is his gold.

when I said that.

Anyway, you're not really Spanish.

From now on, I'm here and I'll protect
you. We'll always be together, all

Good grief, the ship's timbers are
rotten.

Mendoza!

Mendoza! Mendoza!

You never told us what you're going to
do with Esteban, huh?

Nothing. Nothing for the moment. But we
must make sure that he is not

discovered. It would only make trouble
for us.

Don't you feel well?

No, I feel awful. Pain in my chest.

You're seasick. You need fresh air.
It'll make you feel better.

Here, come with me.

Oh!

Hey, where did you two come from? Too
late.

The captain of the guard has spotted
them.

You young scoundrels, don't you realize
we're out in the middle of the ocean?

Don't keep shaking me like that.

Shake, eh?

Everything's spinning around.

Where's he taking them? What'll he do to
them?

Knowing Captain Gaspar, he's quite
capable of throwing them overboard.

But then we would never find the cities
of gold.

These two children are the result of ten
long years of research.

I won't let Gaspar take them away. Come
on, throw this.

Captain Perez!

Stop it! You're hurting me! Let me go,
you big old... Hey!

Come on, DeGomez. Look, I found these
two stowaways that were hiding down in

hold. I don't feel so good.

Listen, Perez, I told you to put the
girl on board, but can you explain the

presence of this boy on ship? I don't
understand your excellency. Mendoza was

told to take only the girl Zia.

This could be a very awkward situation.

I didn't mean to let Gaspar in on all of
this. You know that.

Captain Perez, just what is going on? I
don't know what plot you are brewing on

this ship, but one thing is sure.
Neither of these children is supposed to

aboard the Esperanza. You, come here!

I'm waiting for an explanation.

The voyage to the new world will take us
five months. It's not going to be easy.

Food rations are calculated very
closely, and I do not intend to give any

to useless mouths.

Sir, being captain to Governor Pizarro
does not entitle you to speak to me in

that tone. I protest, sir. It is quite
intolerable.

And yet, Captain, sooner or later, you
too will have to make a full accounting

to Governor Pizarro. Will you stay still
for two seconds?

I'm strongly tempted to throw the two of
them overboard.

Unless, of course, you are willing to
give up your own rations for them.

That's enough. I am commander on this
ship, the only master aboard. And

of the army or not, you have to bow to
my authority.

Well, if you say so.

The stowaways. I'll throw overboard
sooner or later. This way, little ones.

Help! Help!

Help!

Please, help!

Don't! Please!

What is this? Who dares asking you
alive?

Captain Gaspar, these children are under
my protection on board, and I request

that in future you do them no harm.
What's that? What's he going on about?

I'm going to cut you into little pieces.

I am Mendoza, the fleet navigator, and I
am the only man aboard who knows how to

pilot the Esperanza through the dreaded
straits across the south tip of the new

continent. Well, now, that's splendid.

Are you a sailor? You know the custom.
It'll give me great pleasure to watch

toss these two into the drink.

Otherwise... They are not stowaways.

This young girl is known to Senor Gomez.

Isn't that right?

And to you too, Captain Perez.

And this boy is Esteban, the boy who can
command the sun.

Everyone in Barcelona knows his great
power and you want to throw him

Very well,

that's enough, Captain Gaspar. Put up
your sword. You heard him, Captain. His

Excellency orders you to leave these
children alone.

Obey him.

We'll meet again, Mendoza. One day I'll
make you pay for this.

All the rest of you, heave through! Back
to work!

Mendoza, all that I asked you to do was
arrange for the girl Zia. You very

nearly ruined our entire venture.

I thought I was doing the right thing,
sir. You must be aware of the terrible

state of the ship.

Yes, of course. When the crew discovers
what a state the masts and sails and

ropes are in, how will they react? What
do you think, Captain?

Answer him, Captain.

Well, uh... It's too late to turn back
now.

Isn't it, Captain?

The crew knows that Esteban, the child
of the sun, is here with us. They will

feel safer in the storms. Even in an old
wreck like this, they won't be afraid.

I think in my place, you might have done
the same thing.

Uh...

Well, yes, quite so.

Well, Mendoza, you are satisfied now,
are you not?

Then I believe there is nothing more to
be said.

Senor Gomez, may I ask you what
arrangements are to be made about the

Well, let us say that they are your
responsibility until we arrive.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, Captain
Perez.

Esteban, Zia, follow me.

A clever fellow, your navigator, my dear
Perez. He's a bit too clever for my

liking. There is always the chance that
once we're in sight of the city of Lima,

he may have had the bad luck to fall
overboard.

Yes.

God, Esteban, it'll be all right.

On my first voyage, it took me three
days to get used to the sea rolling.

days? Oh, I didn't know it would be as
bad as that.

Esteban, where are you going? Stay here.

Leave me alone.

Don't keep talking to me. I want to be
alone.

You're not being very kind to me. You
told me that we would never be

Oh, that's better. If I'd known what
traveling on a ship would be like, I'm

sure I would have come.

Well, Captain Gaspar, now you know the
reason why the governor ordered me to

bring him the girl Zia.

Yes, yes, the cities of gold.

I've heard of them. But is there really
a mountain of gold? You'll receive your

share.

But you must promise me not to harm
those children. As for Mendoza, there

be time enough for you to take your
revenge.

Once we have arrived in Lima, we shall
no longer require his services. Then you

may dispose of Mendoza as you wish. Very
well. I'll obey your orders, but it

means that I must put up with him on
board the ship for another five months.

cannot hide the fact explicitly that
would be painful.

Without Mendoza, Captain Perez would be
quite unable to take the ship through

the Straits of Magellan. So I must ask
you, my dear captain, to be patient.

revenge will only be the sweeter.

Oh, oh, the monsters. I must go and warn
Mendoza.

So, they won't try anything as long as
they need me to sail the ship through

straits. I also heard that they're
expecting Zia to show them the way to

mysterious cities of gold.

I will never show them the way. I will
never betray my people.

Don't go too far away. As long as I am
here, you're safe.

And Gaspar will never disobey Gomez.

For how long?

It is going to seem a long, long time
before we get to Lima.

Try to amuse yourselves.

Whoa!

This is really high!

Best of our child of the sun is dizzy.

Ha ha ha ha.

Wait there.

Look, Gaspar, those are Inca signs.

I am beaten.

Then the next gentleman. Whose turn is
it next?

Then attack me all together.

You cowards.

Mendoza, you must be bored looking after
your charges. What do you say to a

little fencing lesson, eh? A few parries
and thrusts? Thank you, but I have no

time now. I'm teaching Zia and Esteban
the finer points of navigation.

So you won't fight?

He should teach them how to use a sword
for self -protection. You don't only use

a sword to protect yourself.

You have to learn how to use your head.
But I'm afraid that may never have

occurred to you, Gaspar.

What's that?

Come here and repeat that, you scurvy
dog.

Captain Gaspar.

Watch

out,

Esteban. You could fall in the water.

Yes. Hey, the water, the water's all
yellow.

The ocean is all yellow.

Oh, fantastic.

That means we are nearing the new world.

That means we are nearing the new world.

Golden butterflies, that's a good sign.

Soon we'll be entering the straits. The
straits Majoran found?

Yes.

Tomorrow I will have to take the wheel
and steer the ship for four days and

nights on end.

What? Four days and nights at the wheel
and no sleep?

Yes, the straits are full of dangers.
The navigator has to stay alert all the

time. Oh, can't someone else take your
place?

I don't want a quick death, at least not
yet.

Are the straits really that dangerous?

It is very dangerous. You see where they
lie, the Great Atlantic and the Greater

Pacific meet there.

On this side of the strait is the
Atlantic, where we are.

And there is the Pacific.

The depths of the two oceans are not the
same.

The water isn't the same height. It
depends on the current. Sometimes the

push towards the Atlantic, then they
change and push towards the Pacific.

And all the time a strong wind blows
from the north. So the sea is full of

triangular waves.

If a ship is struck by the full force of
one of these waves, it can be smashed

to pieces.

But don't worry.

This is my third time through the
straits, and I know how to sail those

The sea is running high, but it's only
the start.

I must try to get some sleep now.

Captain,

we're getting close to the straits. The
winds and the currents are so strong, I

can't hold the one wheel.

You, go and find Mendoza in his cabin.
Hurry.

Hey, Mendoza, come up quick. We're
heading into the straits. Come on.

Now it's my turn.

We'll go with you.

No, this ship is going to bob around
like a cork. Stay here. You'll be safer.

It's like the end of the world!

After having crossed the Atlantic, the
Esperanza is sailing into the Straits of

Magellan, near the southern tip of South
America.

A fearful place with treacherous seas
and storm -force winds.

How will Esteban and his friends manage
in these dangerous waters?

Find out in the next episode of The
Mysterious Cities of Gold.

The Esperanza has sailed across the
Atlantic.

The very first Spanish ships that sailed
across that ocean were in search of a

new rich trade route for the spice
trade.

In those days, spices, cinnamon, pepper,
ginger, were as valuable as oil as

today, and Europeans had to send all the
way to India and the East to get them.

The ancient spice route across the land
was expensive and getting dangerous, so

every big European country was looking
for a new trade route to India by sea.

The Portuguese sailed all around Africa
and then east to India. The Spanish

traders were jealous.

Then came Christopher Columbus and
Spanish success.

He was sure the Earth was a globe and
set out to be the first to find a new

route to India by going around the other
way.

His little ship, which can still be seen
in Barcelona Harbor, was called the

Santa Maria.

Two other ships, just as small, joined
him on his historic voyage.

They sailed west.

It was a gamble. They would either find
the riches of the East or, like others

before them, be lost at sea.

Two and a half months later, they found
land at last.

Some islands off the coast of America,
but Columbus called it West India.

And ever since, the native inhabitants
of the Americas have been known as

Indians.

Columbus always insisted he had
discovered a new sea route to India, the

land of spices, as he had hoped to do.
And to him, anything else would have

failure. Now it seems absurd that that
historic meeting of Europeans and the

vast new world of America was at the
time only an accident, even a mistake,

cutthroat trade war between the rich
spice merchants of Spain and Portugal.

Children of the sun, see your time has
just begun.

Searching for your ways through
adventures every day, every day and

a condor in flight, with all your
friends in tow, you search for the

the moon.

I wish you for the sea.

Bye. Bye.

Bye.