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I am trying to locate the name of a book I used to read online. It was a collection of letters in ingles, from a woman in Collonial Nueva Espana Mejico.
The woman I belive was the wife of perhaps an Ambassador? and wrote to her friend either in the USA or England. The book gave a interesting view point of her travel by ship, by coach from the gulf to the interior, her contact with native peoples, and the nobles on the continent.
The book used to be availble to read online but if not i would just like to know the name.. thank you.
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LIFE in Colonial MEXICO ,
Wow! Very interesting. I like those books of people that traveled inside Mexico during those time periods. Also some of them made paintings as they traveled.
LIFE in Colonial MEXICO , Collection of letters from a woman liv
Is this the book?
Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9364
Rosalinda
Life in Mexico- Mosquito Egg Tortillas
Thank you that is definatly it... I love this book !!! The Insights into Life in this time period are Fantastic... David Serna Here is a sample ..Mexico 1839
Count C---a has promised to send me to-morrow a box of mosquitoes' eggs, of
which tortillas are made, which are considered a great delicacy.
In Mexico, mosquitoes as small winged _cannibals_, I was
rather shocked at the idea, but they pretend that these which are from the
Laguna, are a superior race of creatures, which do not sting. In fact the
Spanish historians mention that the Indians used to eat bread made of the
eggs which the fly called _agayacatl_ laid on the rushes of the lakes, and
which they (the Spaniards) found very palatable.