Re: [ranchos] FIRST MESTIZO.

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

What year did this take place?

Alberto.
--- "Steve G. Apodaca" <sgapodaca@...> wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to write something that I found out
> recently while 
> reading Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana,
> by Bernal Diaz 
> del Castillo. Perhaps many of you know about this
> story, but anyways, 
> it is about the first mexican mestizo. It was not,
> like I used to 
> believe, from the union of Cortes and la Malinche,
> but rather of 
> another espanol way before that.
> 
> The story says that when Cortes first landed on the
> Yucatan peninsula, 
> he heard the news from the indian translators that
> two espaniards were 
> slaves in that area. He sent for his rescue, and
> paid a ransom to 
> their masters for their freedom. One of them was a
> priest called 
> Jeronimo de Aguilar. As soon as he was freed, he
> went to look for the 
> other espanol. This is what the book says:
> 
> "When he had read the letter and received the
> ransom, he carreid the 
> beads delightedly to his master the Cacique an
> begged leave to depart. 
> The Cacique gave him permission to go wherever he
> wished, and Aguilar 
> set out for the place some fifteen miels aways where
> his comrade, 
> Gonzalo Guerrero, was living. But on hearing the
> contents of the 
> letter Gonzalo answered: 'Brother Aguilar, I am
> married and have three 
> children, and they look on me as a Cacique here, and
> a captain in time 
> of war. Go, and God's blessing be with you. But my
> face is tattooed 
> and my ears are pierced. What would the Spaniards
> say if they saw me 
> like this? And look how handsome these children of
> mine are! Please 
> give me some of those beads you have brought, and I
> will tell them 
> that my brothers have sent them from my own
> country.' And Gonzalo's 
> Indian wife spoke to Aguilar very angrily in her own
> language: 'Why 
> has this slave come here to call my husband away? Go
> off with you, and 
> let us have no more of your talk.' Then Aguilar
> spoke to Gonzalo 
> again, reminding him that he was a Christian and
> should not destroy 
> his soul for the sake of an Indian woman. Besides,
> if he did not wish 
> to desert his wife and children, he could take them
> with him. But 
> neither words nor warnings could persuade Gonzalo to
> come. I believe 
> he was a sailor and hailed from Palos."
> 
> I know, this story is not from our target area. I
> just wanted to let 
> know those who did not know how the mestizaje in
> Mexico started.
> 
> P.s. Read this book. You'll love it, but be warned
> that there will be 
> some words and phrases you will have trouble to
> understand. Have 
> patience, it is worth it.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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