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SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND THE ITZAS

the Province called Hopelchen, whence I wrote to my Prelate of the resolution which we had taken of returning to the Ytzaes by another route, since on the one we had started on, our work was stopped. I received a reply from my Prelate by which he said he expected me in the City, without informing us that we should go back by the way we suggested.

Return to Merida. “We came to his presence and entered the City on Saturday the 16th of September of the said year 1695....”