HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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The foregoing is all in harmony with what Gomara says. He especially
emphasizes the friendly attitude of Canek. (Gomara, 1826, vol. ii, p.
136 ff.)[3.7]




                               CHAPTER IV

                THE ENTRADA OF FRANCISCO DE MONTEJO AND
                    HIS SON, AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE
                         FRANCISCANS, 1526-1542


Francisco de Montejo and his Son. Although northern Yucatan was reduced
to the condition of an orderly Spanish possession some one hundred and
fifty years before the Peten region, it was done, nevertheless, only at