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CONTENTS
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| They face starvation | 168 |
| A sign from our Lady of the Apparition | 168 |
| They climb some high hills | 169 |
| Avendaño left alone | 170 |
| The miracle of the sapote | 171 |
| Rescued | 171 |
| What had happened to the Indians whom Avendaño sent off | 172 |
| The messenger from Tayasal | 174 |
| Reasons for Avendaño's distrust | 174 |
| The expedition from Guatemala reaches Cahabon | 175 |
| Preliminary movements and plans | 175 |
| The fate of Diaz de Velasco; Amezquita follows him | 175 |
| Conclusion of the subjection of the Itzas begun | 175 |
| Paredes is ordered to march to Los Dolores | 176 |
| Canek's ambassador, Can, arrives at Merida | 177 |
| Zuviaur goes to the lake | 179 |
| Ursua determines to take vigorous measures | 179 |
| Lawsuits between Soberanis and Ursua | 180 |
| Captain Parades at Tzucthok | 180 |
| Captain Hariza at Tipu | 180 |
| The Cacique Cintanek's villages | 181 |
| Can's report | 181 |
| The commands of King Charles II | 181 |
| Soberanis and Ursua in agreement at last | 182 |
| The part to be taken by Indian villages | 182 |
| The road completed as far as the lake | 183 |
| Quincanek feigns friendliness | 183 |
| The hostilities begin | 184 |
| The captains urge Ursua to fight; the battle | 184 |
| Tayasal becomes a Spanish possession | 185 |
| Later history of Tayasal | 185 |
| I | The Question of Orthography | 187 |
| II | The Dialect of Peten. (From an unpublished manuscript by Dr. Berendt in the Brinton Collection in the University Museum, Philadelphia) |
188 |
| III | The Maps of Yucatan, 1501-1800 | 192 |
| IV | Itinerary of Avendaño, together with geographical information | 200 |
| Bibliography | 202 | |
