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render obedience to the Spaniards ; when, leaving 

 them a great supply of provisions and many Indian 

 servants, he returned to Mani. 



He convoked all his Indians, and gave them no- 

 tice of his intentions, and of the agreement he had 

 made vidth the Spaniards; to which they all as- 

 sented. 



Afterward he despatched the caciques who went 

 with him to render submission to the Spaniards, as 

 ambassadors to the Lords of Zotuta, called the Co- 

 comes, and the other nations to the east as far as 

 the region where now stands the city of Valladolid, 

 making known to them his resolution, and the 

 friendship he had contracted with the Spaniards, 

 and beseeching them to do the same ; representing 

 that the Spaniards were determined to remain in 

 the land, had estabhshed themselves in Campeachy, 

 and were preparing to do so in Tihoo ; reminding 

 them how many battles they had fought, and how 

 many lives of the natives had been lost ; and in- 

 forming them that he had experienced from the 

 Spaniards while he remained with them good-will, 

 and that he held it better for all his countrymen to 

 follow his example, considering the dangers of the 

 opposite course. 



The ambassadors proceeded to the district of Zo- 

 tuta, and made known their embassy to Nachi Co- 

 com, the principal lord of that territory. The lat- 

 ter requested them to wait four or five days for their 

 answer, and in the mean time convoked all his de- 

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