[XXI‑7] Its chief feature was bleeding at the nose, for which no remedy could be found. The country was almost depopulated. Vazquez, Chron. Gvat., 157. Juarros, Guat. (ed. Lond. 1823), 148.
[XXI‑8] They killed four men, besides a priest who attempted to prevent the seizure of the host, remained nearly two weeks, and made many prisoners. The viceroy of New Spain was at once notified. Velasco, Carta, Sept. 30, 1558, in Squier's MSS., x. 1, 2.
[XXI‑9] Carta, Feb. 18, 1555, in Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 25.
[XXI‑10] 'Que no solo le era licito al Rey hazerles guerra, sino q̃ en conciencia estaua a ello obligado, y para a defender a sus subditos totalmente destruyra los de Lacandon.' Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 616.
[XXI‑11] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 621, says many escaped in the direction of Yucatan through a large river connected with the lake which Pelaez, Mem. Guat., i. 161-2, supposes to have been the Zacapulas.
[XXI‑12] In 1638, Pinelo says that it was not known whether Puchutlas was in Lake Lacandon or in another lake. Relacion, i. Fancourt in his map accompanying Hist. Yuc., places the town north of L. Lacandon. Other maps of this region do not attempt to give its locality. In making my map of this region I have drawn from this and other sources. Dávila says the expedition started forth to visit the provinces of La Candon, Pochultra, Catanu, and Tofilte pequena. Relacion, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvi. 327.
[XXI‑13] This according to Juarros, though he does not give us his authority for the statement. Guat., i. 259.
[XXI‑14] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 622, piously observes that the expedition was ordained by God for the salvation of a single soul, that of an infant, 'Entiendese que solo la ordenò nuestro Señor para saluar vn alma predestinada de vn niño de solos quinze dias que hallãdole vn Español atrauessado con vna saeta le bautizò antes que espirase.' Pelaez, Mem. Hist. Guat., i. 159-64, takes the more practical view adopted in the text.
[XXI‑15] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 523-645, forms the chief and original authority for the foregoing events, and it is much to be regretted that we have no other account with which to compare his statements. In all subsequent descriptions of this expedition their authors have directly or indirectly followed Remesal. Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza., 51-80, copies him literally. Pinelo, Relacion, 2-4; Juarros, Guat., 258-9; Pelaez, Mem. Hist. Guat., i. 159-64, all follow him. Squier, Cent. Amer., 554-61, follows both Villagutierre and Pinelo.
[XXI‑16] Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 26. Vazquez, Chronica Gvat., 222, says that he was appointed Nov. 28, 1558.