[XXXVI‑13] The proceeds of his encomienda were deposited in the royal treasury of Guatemala, 'como en deposito, para el gasto que se auia de hazer en ella,' that is the expedition. Id., 685.
[XXXVI‑14] This messenger was a Spaniard, whom Vilvao almost succeeded in poisoning: 'teniendo modo como echar veneno en el pinole, que auia de beber por el camino, con que despues estuuo muy cercano à morir.' Id., 689.
[XXXVI‑15] 'Y viẽdo los Soldados que tenia, quan remiso estaba, se le huyeron en aquel tiempo, que solos cinco quedaron en su compañia.' Id., 696.
[XXXVI‑16] Infante and Gabaldá had some time previously been submitted to much ill-treatment by the Indians of Nohhaa, who after an idolatrous debauch compelled them to leave the town and betake themselves to the woods, whither the natives presently brought them their robes and the church ornaments. Id. Fancourt, Hist. Yuc., 232, erroneously states that the father was despoiled of his effects.
[XXXVI‑17] 'Que es tambien del Beneficio de Vçumaçintla, y distante de èl veinte y dos leguas.' Cogollvdo, Hist. Yuc., 698.
[XXXVI‑18] 'Natural de la Imperial Ciudad de Toledo, y Cauallero de la Orden de Calatraua.' Id., 684.
[XXXVI‑19] Villagutierre states that one of the chief difficulties the missionaries had to contend with was the opposition of native pseudo-christians who monopolized a profitable trade with the more remote nations, whom they prejudiced against the Spaniards, that their gains might not be impaired. Hist. Conq. Itza, 161-2. Chico states that in consequence of the extortions practised on the christianized natives, they abandoned their settlements and relapsed into idolatry. Restitucion de los Chamelcos, in Doc. Orig. Chiap., 7.
[XXXVI‑20] The most outlying town of Vera Paz.
[XXXVI‑21] 'Y estando dormidos, bolvieron los Choles, y les dieron de palos, y aun debieron de matar al Indio Christoval, su Amigo, que nunca mas pareciò; y entonçes, solo vno bolvió.' Id., 171. Juarros states that the messengers were severely beaten with clubs and dismissed without reply. Guat., 278.
[XXXVI‑22] Fancourt conjectures that it 'was most probably the Selegua, known nearer its junction with the sea ... as the river Grijalva or Tabasco.' Hist. Yuc., 243. For map of the Lacandon territory see [p. 362], this vol.