Note XXXVI‑19 — Chapter XXXVI · THE ITZAS AND LACANDONES. 1601-1700.
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Villagutierre states that one of the chief difficulties the missionaries had to contend with was the opposition of native pseudo-christians who monopolized a profitable trade with the more remote nations, whom they prejudiced against the Spaniards, that their gains might not be impaired. Hist. Conq. Itza, 161-2. Chico states that in consequence of the extortions practised on the christianized natives, they abandoned their settlements and relapsed into idolatry. Restitucion de los Chamelcos, in Doc. Orig. Chiap., 7.