[XXI-20] 'En fin de Iulio.' Herrera, dec. iv. lib. ix. cap. xv.
[XXI-21] Oviedo, iii. 172, attributes to Pedrarias the release of two millions of souls from dusky bodies during a period of sixteen years. 'Ni han tenido más largas jornadas que caminar dos millones de indios que desde el año de mill é quinientos y catorçe que llegó Pedrarias á la Tierra-Firme hasta quél murió.' Two million murders!
[XXI-22] Additional authorities for the preceding two chapters are: Various documents in Col. Doc. Inéd., v. 209, 211-12, 215; also in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., vii. 556-7; xii. 84-6; xiv. 54; xvi. 324; Squier's MSS., iv. xx. 2-5, 11-43; Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 164; Andagoya, Narr., 32-9; Chimalpain, Hist. Conq., ii. 181; Navarrete, Col. de Viages, iii. 416-17; Las Casas, Hist. Apolog., MS., 29; Pelaez, Mem. Guat., i. 54-9; Beaumont, Crón. Mech., MS., 322-3; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 616; Belly, Nicaragua, i. 171-2.
[XXII-1] Cartas, 259.
[XXII-2] See [p. 493, this volume].
[XXII-3] Cortés, Cartas, 289-90. But this state of things did not last long. Ixtlilxochitl includes Soconusco in a list of provinces which were in revolt in 1523. Horribles Crueldades, 65.
[XXII-4] According to Fuentes y Guzman, derived from Coctecmalan—that is to say, Palo de leche, milk-tree, commonly called Yerba mala, found in the neighborhood of Antigua Guatemala. See also Juarros, Guat., ii. 257-8. In the Mexican tongue, if we may believe Vazquez, it was called Quauhtimali, 'rotten tree.' Chronica de Guat., 68. Others derive it from Uhatezmalha, signifying 'the hill which discharges water;' and Juarros suggests that it may be from Juitemal, the first king of Guatemala, by a corruption, as Almolonga from Atmulunga, and Zonzonate from Zezontlatl. The meaning of the word would then be 'the kingdom of Guatemala.' Guat., i. 4; ii. 259-60.
[XXII-5] See [Native Races, v.], passim.
[XXII-6] There were two royal families among the Cakchiquels. The succession alternated between them. The king's title was Ahpozotzil, while that of the heir of the other branch was Ahpoxahil. The eldest sons of these had respectively the titles of Ahpop Qamahay and Galel Xahil. [Native Races, ii. 640].
[XXII-7] This Mexican name of Cortés was already known to the natives from sea to sea, and from the far north to the far south; in fact, to them it was almost his only name.