"(El adelantado) dió la capitania à un sobrino que llaman Manso Pacheco. Nero no fué mas cruel que este. Este pasó adelante y llegó á una provincia que llaman _Chatemal_, estando de paz, i sin dar guerra los naturales la robó i les comió los mantenimientos à los naturales, i ellos huyendo à los montes de miedo de los Españoles porque en tomando alguno luego lo aperreaban, i desto huian los Indios i no sembraban i todos murieron de hambre, digo todos porque habia pueblos de á quinientos casas i de á mil, i el que agora tiene ciento es mucho; provincia rica de cacao. Este capitan por sus proprias manos exercitaba las fuerzas, con un garrote maté muchos i decia, 'este es buen palo para castigar á estos;' i desque lo habia muerto, 'O, quan bien lo dé.' Corto muchos pechos á mugeres, i manos á hombres i narices i orejas i estaco, i á las mugeres ataba calabazas á los pies i las echaba en las lagunas ahogar por su pasatiempo, i otras grandes crueldades." _Carta de Fr. Lorenzo de Bienvanida,[TN-32] 1548. MS._ 28. The town Conah Itza, or Con Ahitza, Con of the Itzas, may refer to the seaport, Coni, the eastern coast, where Montejo landed on his first expedition. Bishop Toral did not arrive in Yucatan until 1562, so the mention of him proves that this narrative was written after that date. 29. No such person as Juan de Montejo is known. 30. _Yocol peten_; so it is first spelled in the original manuscript, and afterwards altered to _Yucalpeten_. This latter occurs as a name applied to the peninsula, or a portion of it, in a number of passages of the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel. These have been quoted by the Canon Crescencio Carrillo in a recent work (_Historia Antigua de Yucatan_, pp. 137, 140, Merida, 1882), to support his view that the name Yucatan is an abbreviation of Yucalpeten. Apart from the difficulty of explaining such an extensive abbreviation, which is not at all in the spirit of the Maya tongue, the words of Pech in this section and § 33 conclusively prove that the two names are entirely distinct in origin. Carrillo is of opinion that _yucal_ should be divided into _y_, _u_, _cal_, and he translates the name "la perla de la garganta de la tierra ò continente." This appears far-fetched. _Yocal_ is probably merely _yoc hail_, upon the water (_il_, determinative ending denoting what water); hence _yocal peten_, the region upon the water, applied to Yucatan or some part of its coast district. The _h_ is nearly mute and frequently elided, as in _ocola_ (_ocol haa_) to baptize. A prophecy of the priest Pech, which is perhaps the one here referred to, appears in several of the Books of Chilan Balam, and also Spanish translations of it in the Histories of Lizana and Cogolludo, and a French version in Brasseur's report of the _Mission Scientifique au Mexique_, etc. The text is quite corrupt, but I insert it as I have emended it from a comparison of three copies. U THAN AHAU PECH AHKIN.