HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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Reasons for Avendano's Distrust. Avendano found it difficult to credit
this news for several reasons, the chief of which were:

First. The obvious fact that, at the time he (Avendano) was last at
Tayasal, Canek was unable to force his subjects to adopt Christianity
on account of the hostility of Covoh and others.

Second. That, in spite of the intimacy that had existed between Canek
and Avendano, the latter had never received the slightest hint of
Canek's intention of sending any such messenger.

Third. That Canek, had such a messenger really been sent while the
Padres were with him, would most certainly have detained them as
hostages until the safe return of the messenger.

Avendano (p. 66 recto) closes his narrative thus: