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that Oie thanked God^ who had taken her from the worfhip of idols to 

 the true church, and was happier in having a Ton by her lord and mafter 

 Cortes, and in being married to a cavaher hke her hufband, than if flie 

 had been fovereign of all the provinces of New Spain. All this I heard 

 with my own ears, and fwear to the truth thereof. Amen. At parting 

 (he gave them a very handfome prefent of gold, and thus difmilTed them. 

 This ftoiy brings to my mind that of Jofeph in Egypt» when his bro- 

 thers were in his power. Donna Marina underftood the language o{ 

 Guacacualco and Mexico which is one and the fame, and as flie alfo 

 could converfc with Aguilar in that of Tabafco and Yucatan, we thus 

 acquired a medium of communication with the Mexican language* 

 which was an objed: of great importance to us. 



