how do you read this?

Rifareal, Josh Conner Canoy

Gordon Collett

One of the most helpful techniques for reading handwritten documents is to initially ignore what you are trying to read and evaluate the entire page:

• Where is it from?
• What type of document is it?
• What year is it from?
• How does the person that wrote it write?
• What do his letters look like on the rest of the page?
• Do the same words appear multiple times so I can be confident knowing what letters are what?
• What does everything look like zoomed way in and way out?
• How does making the page lighter or darker affect what can be read?

This means it is much more useful to see the entire page than just a tiny clip. My best guess is that this is the name Mercy. But if you could post a link to where this image is found or show the entire page at high resolution, so I could properly look at this, I could easily change my mind or someone else could give you a better opinion.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Summarizing Gordon's comment: We Need A Lot More Context. Your snippet possibly cuts off part of the last letter, so it is completely impossible to interpret properly.