LIFE in Colonial MEXICO , Collection of letters from a woman living in Nueva Espana
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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.
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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.
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Is this the book?
Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9364
Rosalinda
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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.
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