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Delgado opposes Mirones	78
Delgado determines to anticipate Mirones	79
Delgado's message to Canek	80
Delgado receives permission from Canek to come to Tayasal	80
The treachery of the Itzas	80
Delgado and others are put to death	81
Mirones sends Ek after Delgado	81
Revolt of the Indians	82
An epidemic of apostasy; the third phase of the conquest of the Itzas begins	82

CHAPTER VII
the Early History of Guatemala and the Entrada
from that Country, 1694-1695

The Indian tribes of Guatemala	84
Account of the Cakchiquel and of the Quiché	84
The government and the cities of the Cakchiquel and of the Quiché	84
Spanish conquest	85
Gallegos and Delgado	85
The Indians are friendly to them	86
The route taken by the two Padres	86
Several villages founded	87
The Dominicans and the Franciscans	87
Struggles between the Dominicans and the Indians	87
The inception of the plan to subdue the ltzas, 1689	88
Soberanis ordered to coōperate	89
Ursua to succeed Soberanis in office	89
A letter from Ursua y Arizmendi to the King of the Spains	89
The King grants all that Ursua asks	90
President Barrios aids in the undertaking	90
Arrangements for the entrada; supplies, etc.	91
The voluntary contributions	92
Quarrels between Soberanis and the Bishop of Yucatan	92
President Barrios decides to join the entrada in person	93
The expedition sets out from Guatemala City	95
Events at Huehuetenango	95
Ursua’s activities	96
An army sets out from Yucatan for the Montaña	96
Padres Cano and Avendaño y Loyola	96
Cano’s account of the entrada from Guatemala	96
The route followed by Cano	97
The Chols and the Mopanes	98
From Mopan to the lake	99
Cano advises return	100
Explanations of their withdrawal sent to Guatemala	100
The decree of the General Assembly	101
Quarrels among the soldiers and the officials	101
The writers of the decree punished	101