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other flaves by the name of Marina (/). She was al- 

 ways faithful to the Spaniards, and her fervices to them 

 can never be over-rated ; as flie was not only the inft.ru- 

 ment of their negotiations with the Mexicans, the Tlafca- 

 lans, and the other nations of Anahuac, but frequently 

 faved their lives, by warning them of dangers, and point- 

 ing out the means of efcaping them. She accompanied 

 Cortes in all his expeditions, ferving fometimes as an in- 

 terpreter, fometimes as a counfellor, and fometimes to her 

 misfortune as a miftrefs. The fon which the had by that 

 conqueror, who was called Don Martin Cortes, knight 

 of the military order of St. Jago, on account of fome ill- 

 grounded fufpicions of rebellion, was put to the torture 

 in Mexico in the year 1568; his iniquitous and barba- 

 rous judges paying no regard to the memory of the un- 

 equalled fervices rendered by the parents of that illus- 

 trious fufferer to the Catholic king and all the Spanifli 

 nation (g). After the conqueft (he was married to a 

 refpe&able Spaniard, named Juan de Xaramillo. Dur- 

 ing the long and hazardous voyage which flie made in 

 company with Cortes to the province of Honduras, in 

 1524, flie had occaflon in pafling through her native 

 country to fee her mother and her brother, who prefent- 

 ed themfelves before her, bathed in tears and covered 

 with confuflon, as they dreaded that from her being in 

 pov/er and profperity, under the protection of the Spa- 

 niards, 



( / ) The Mexicans adapt the name Marina to their language, and fay 

 Matintzin, whence came the name Malinchi, by which flie is known among the 

 Spaniards of Mexico. 



(g Thofe who gave the torture to Don Martin Cortes, and put the mar- 

 quis of the Vale, his brother, in prifon, were two formidable judges fent to 

 Mexico by Philip II. The chief of thofe judges called Mugnoz, made fuch bar- 

 barous decifions, that the king being moved by the complaints of the Mexicans 

 againft him, recalled him to the court, and gave him fo fevere and fo harfh a 

 reprimand, that he grew melancholy and died. 



