>>22410606Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian actor named Espera Oscar de Corti. Fun Fact: Spaniards literally couldn't tell apart one of their own men from Mayans:
>When Andres de Tápia saw that they were only Indians (for Aguilar looked neither more nor less than an Indian), he at once sent word to Cortes by a Spaniard that they were Cozumel Indians who had come in the canoe. As soon as the men had landed, the Spaniard in words badly articulated and worse pronounced, cried Dios y Santa Maria de Sevilla and Tápia went at once to embrace him. The other soldier who had accompanied Tápia when he saw what had happened, promptly ran to Cortes to beg a reward for the good news, for it was a Spaniard who had come in the canoe, and we were all delighted when we heard it>Tápia soon brought the Spaniard to Cortes, but before he arrived where Cortes was standing, several Spaniards asked Tápia where the Spaniard was? although he was walking by his side, for they could not distinguish him from an Indian as he was naturally brown and he had his hair shorn like an Indian slave, and carried a paddle on his shoulder, he was shod with one old sandal and the other was tied to his belt, he had on a ragged old cloak, and a worse loin cloth with which he covered his naked-ness, and he had tied up, in a bundle in his cloak, a Book of Hours, old and worn. When Cortes saw him in this state, he too was deceived like the other soldiers, and asked Tápia " Where is the Spaniard ?" On hearing this, the Spaniard squatted down on his haunches as the Indians do and said " I am he." 