Note XXXVI‑47 — Chapter XXXVI · THE ITZAS AND LACANDONES. 1601-1700.

After the conquest of the Itzas in 1697, the Spanish settlement in Peten was for half a century only a military outpost, with a small garrison from Guatemala. Afterward it became a criminal colony. Berendt in Smithsonian Report, 1867, 424. The conquest seems to have been completed, however, for in 1759 there were in the Peten district 7 villages, besides the principal settlement. Juarros, Guat. (Lond. ed.), 299.