Note IV‑8 — Chapter IV · THE CAKCHIQUELS AGAIN IN REVOLT. 1525-1526.

Alvarado calls this city the 'city of Santiago,' and also the 'city of Guatemala,' Arévalo, Actas Ayunt. Guatemala, 102, by which expressions it must be understood to have been Patinamit. Brasseur de Bourbourg, on the authority of the Cakchiquel manuscript, states that Alvarado mustered his forces at Xapan, and that at the moment of commencing his march one half of his men mutinied and fled to Patinamit; whereupon Alvarado pursued them, and the two parties nearly came to blows at the latter place. He found means, however, to pacify them, but in the night the mutineers set fire to the city and escaped, the date being May 9, 1526. Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 686.