der the dominion of the Chel family. The Itzas, in whom our
chief interest lies, probably withdrew far to the south and founded
their power in the region about Lake Peten. Brinton (1882, p. 25.)
gives this list of the small independent states found by the Spaniards:

1 ACALAN (Bahia de Terminos)
2 TIXCHEL (Telchac)
3 KIN PECH (Campeche)
4 CHAKANPUTUN (Champoton)
5 CANUL
6 HOCABAIHUMUN
7 CEHPECH (Merida region)
8 ZIPATAN (northwest coast)
9 CHOACA (northeast coast)
10 EKAB (opposite Cozumel)
11 CONIL (north coast, west of Choaca)
12 -- -- -- -- -- --
13 CHETEMAL (southern end of east coast)
14 TAITZA (Itza, Peten district)
15 AH KIN CHEL (Itzamal region)
16 ZOTUTA (Cocom state, between Merida and Valladolid)
17 MANI (Xiu state, southwest of Zotuta)

In number 14 we recognize the Itzas of Peten. The close of this period
of Disintegration (period VII) ushers in the eighth period, which will
take up the remainder of our attention.

NOTE
COGOLLUDO'S ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE
MAYAS AND OF SOME OF THEIR CUSTOMS

It is well to present the account of the pre-Columbian history of the
Mayas as given by Cogolludo. It will be seen to differ greatly from the
more scientific view just given, but it presents points of interest. It
will be found in lib. iv, cap. 3.

"Neither from the peoples who populated this Kingdom of Yucatan nor
from their ancient Histories have I been able to find more than I shall
say here. In some writings which those who first learned how to write
left behind them, and which are in the native idiom (which is still
used among the Indians), it says that some of the people came from the
East and some from the West. With those who were from the Occident was
one who, as it were, was a Priest of theirs, called _Zamna_; and they
say that he it was who gave the names by which they are called in that
tongue to all the Ports of the Sea, points of land, estuaries, coasts,
and all the regions, sites, mountains (forests), and all the places of
this entire land; and certain it is that it is a thing worthy of
admiration if it was so, for such a division did he make of everything
in order that each spot might be known by its own name that there is
scarcely a palm of land which has not a name in their tongue. The
opinion that the settlers cam