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"Early the next morning
many Caciques and chiefs of Tabasco and the neighbouring towns arrived
and paid great respect to us all, and they brought a present of gold, ...
[and] twenty women that were given us, among them one very excellent woman
called Doña Marina, for so she was named when she became a Christian.
. . she was truly a great chieftainess and the daughter of great Caciques
and the mistress of vassals, and this her appearance clearly showed.
Cortés allotted
one of the women to each of his captains and Doña Marina, as she
was good looking and intelligent and without embarrassment, he gave to
Alonzo Hernández Puertocarrero. When Puertocarrero went to Spain,
Doña Marina lived with Cortés, and bore him a son named Don
Martin Cortés."
Bernal Diaz del Castillo,
The
Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, XXII, 62, 64.
"As Doña Marina
proved herself such an excellent woman and good interpreter throughout
the wars in New Spain, Tlaxcala and Mexico (as I shall show later on) Cortés
always took her with him, and during that expedition she was married to
a gentleman named Juan Jaramillo at the town of Orizaba.
Doña Marina
was a person of the greatest importance and was obeyed without question
by the Indians throughout New Spain...
Doña Marina
knew the language of Coatzaldoalcos, which is that common to Mexico, and
she knew the language of Tabasco, as did also Jerónimo de Aguilar,
who spoke the language of Yucatan and Tabasco, which is one and the same.
So that these two could understand one another clearly, and Aguilar translated
into Castilian for Cortés."
Bernal Diaz del Castillo,
The
Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, XXIII, 67-68.
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A
Historic Figure Is Still Hated by Many in Mexico
La
Malinche - - Harlot or Heroine?
La
Malinche genera polémica cinco siglos después
La
Malinche vuelve a desatar una pasión
Malintzin:
Madre del Mestizaje
