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Dona Marina Journal

Created By Kelsey. Dona Marina Journal. My Life Story

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Dona Marina Journal

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  1. Created By Kelsey Dona Marina Journal

  2. My Life Story                 My name is Dona Marina. I was born the daughter of the great lords of Paynala City. My mother decided she wanted my younger brother to take thrown after my fathers death instead so she traded me to the Xicalango tribe. Who traded me to the Tabasco, where I was given to Cortes, this is my story…

  3. 1519 Hernando Cortes looks like a great lord. He comes with many men wearing this dark hard shiny material. They arrived from great mass floating materials that look like canoes. Thee canoes hold hundreds of these warriors. I have been gathered with twenty other female slaves. We will be given as a Peace offering to Hernando Cortes. Many are frightened by this idea, but I believe I could be great help to him. 1519, two months after becoming a slave to Cortes Hernando Cortes has learned that I know many of thee languages of the natives. And I could be very useful to his advantage. This would be a great opportunity to me so I would not have to continue to be as much as a slave, which have been basically my whole life.

  4. 1520 I am now very informed and fluent in the Spanish language. This has helped me with communicating with other people and tribes by transferring the information back to Hernando Cortes in a language he understands. I have also been converted to their religion in spite of learning their culture. I have well knowledge on Christianity now. 1520 Hernando Cortes has relied on much of my advice on dealing with many of the tribes I know very well. I have also encouraged information out of other natives that is also useful towards Hernando Cortes. Hernando Cortes has also been useful to my purpose also though. He has taught me much of thee Spanish language and culture.

  5. 1521 1522 I gave birth to Cortes’s son. He is a beautiful baby boy, named Don Martin Cortes. Hernando. Cortes has said as he will go forth with paying in the future the expensive of his education, and I may keep him as my son, and find someone I would be worthy to marry. He has also asked both of us to join him on thee exploration to Honduras. Hernando Cortes and I have became very close with each other and fond of thee. I wish to become his wife but it is forbidden, he has a lady back in Cuba, which he is married too.

  6. 1525 I have had meet with a Juan Jaramillo. He has offered my hand in marriage come thee next year. And I have accepted his authos. Hernando Cortes has been gone on his way back to Spain as the King’s wishes. I am not sure if we will ever share in an encounter again. 1524 Don Martin and I join Hernando on his expedition to Honduras. We will be sailing with a short amount of men because many Spaniards fear of Hernando Cortes’s ambitions.

  7. 1529 I have come down with a great illness, that does not have a name. I am in a lot of thee pain. I'm afraid this will be the last document I have written in my journal. My Husband, Juan Jaramillo and my two children I right by my side, in my last moments. It has been a great journey and good bye. 1526 I have been blessed with another child. Juan Jaramillo and I have been married for almost a year, and I just gave birth to another child. It is a petite baby girl. With the most beautiful eyes and hair. Her name has not become decided between us at thee moment, but I wished to share this precious moment.

  8. Heritage History. "Dona Marina." Heritage History. 2009. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. <http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?R_menu=OFF&Dir=characters&FileName=marina.php>. Thatcher, Nancy. "Doña Marina to Malinche." Sailor Heva's Mysterious Cities of Gold. Dec. 2002. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mysteriouscitiesofgold.org/3620_Marina.htm>.

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