HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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Aide or the Captain General of las Montanas. Francisco Gonzalez
Richardo was appointed subchief, second in command only to Ursua.


An Army Sets out from Yucatan for the Montana. When all the usual and
needful preparations had been made, the army set out from Yucatan. As
soon as they left the settled part of the province they entered the
territory of the Quehaches, whom they put to flight after a sharp
skirmish. Paredes' soldiers, however, refused to go on without
reenforcements, so the expedition had to turn back.


Padres Cano and Avendano y Loyola. We have already reviewed the events
up to 1695, in which year the two great divisions of the Spanish forces
set out to subdue the dangerous Itzas and Lacandones. Hereafter we
will, in the main, trust to two religious writers, whose accounts of
the succeeding events are very vivid. Maestro Fray Agustin Cano