Elisa Bravo

Elisa Bravo Jaramillo de Bañados (also spelt Eliza) was a passenger on Joven Daniel when this ship was wrecked on the coast of Araucanía, south-central Chile in 1849.

[4] Unfortunately, the gift included a cask of rum, which the indigenous people proceeded to consume, after which they decided to murder the Chileans of Spanish descent[4] by the cruellest methods.

[5] However, there were various reports that Elisa Bravo may have been taken captive by the indigenous people and was still alive, living as wife to the cacique,[4] in what is described as the most brutal forced coexistence[3] resulting in children of "mixed blood".

[6] Troops were sent from Valdivia to rescue her, but could not even find her body; an indigenous person told them that she was buried on the beach with her young child and her servant, with just three stones to mark the place.

[6] Elisa Bravo, by contrast, presents a figure of heroic virtue, the stereotype of the virtuous woman resisting, albeit unsuccessfully, the depraved savages who immolate her companions and violate her,[6] producing a family of mestizos (mongrels).