Note XXXIII‑10 — Chapter XXXIII · BELIZE. 1650-1800.

On his way to Mérida from Bacalar Figueroa was seized with illness and died. On the 10th of August 1733 Lara, Apunt. Hist., affirms that at the demands of the English government Figueroa was reprehended by the crown for this attack, which so mortified him as to cause his death. This version is accepted by Sierra in his Ojeada sobre Belice, and also by Peniche, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da ép., i. 226-7, but as these statements are mentioned by no other authority and are discredited by Ancona, Hist. Yuc., ii. 419-21, I am disposed to reject them.