Note XXXVI‑33 — Chapter XXXVI · THE ITZAS AND LACANDONES. 1601-1700.

Velasco and his company are supposed to have been induced by proffers of friendship to cross over to the island in small canoes. They were then either drowned in the lake or massacred as they landed. Villagvtierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, 370-1. Another account states that hearing signal shots fired by some of their party, 15 Spaniards rushed to arms, believing that an engagement had opened. They were assailed and slain. Id., 433. Fancourt accepts this story as probable. Still another statement is that the Itzas, 'avian muerto, ... à los de Guatemala, cogidos durmiendo en la Sabana, y que se los comieron, y las Cavalgaduras.' Id., 456. Their bones were afterward found and buried. Id., 485-6.