Re: "Juanita" / Dilemma

Ronald Kephart (rkephart@OSPREY.UNF.EDU)
Fri, 31 May 1996 12:42:58 -0400

In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.960530203750.24194D-100000@huey.csun.edu> mike shupp
writes:

> I don't think it was Diaz. Castello, de Castilo, or something like that
> is the name that bounces around my head. Largish paperback, black cover
> with white letters, came out (translated) 20 years or so back.


You're both right: the name is Bernal Diaz del Castillo (Historia verdadera de
la conquista de la nueva Espanya). I looked thru the excerpt I have here, but
didn't encounter the ref you're looking for.

Ronald Kephart
Dept of Language & Literature
University of North Flo
Phone: (904) 646-2580