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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."


"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"

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1521.

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