Editing Spanish conquest of Yucatán (section)

====San Buenaventura among the Kejache, September – November 1695====
Juan de San Buenaventura's small group of [[Franciscans]] arrived in Chuntuki on 30 August 1695, and found that the army had opened the road southwards for another seventeen leagues (approximately 44.2 miles or 71.1&nbsp;km), almost {{not a typo|half way}} to [[Lake Petén Itzá]], but returned to Chuntuki due to the seasonal rains.<ref>Jones 1998, p. 157.</ref> San Buenaventura was accompanied by two friars and a lay brother.<ref name="Jones 1998 148">Jones 1998, p. 148.</ref> With Avendaño's return to [[Mérida, Yucatán|Mérida]], provincial superior Antonio de Silva despatched two additional friars to join San Buenaventura's group. One of these was to convert the [[Kejache]] in Tzuktokʼ, and the other was to do the same at Chuntuki.<ref>Jones 1998, p. 158.</ref> On 24 October San Buenaventura wrote to the provincial superior reporting that the warlike Kejache were now pacified and that they had told him that the Itza were ready to receive the Spanish in friendship.<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 158–159.</ref> On that day 62 Kejache men had voluntarily come to Chuntuki from Pakʼekʼem, where another 300 Kejache resided.<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 159–160.</ref> In early November 1695, friar Tomás de Alcoser and brother Lucas de San Francisco were sent to establish a mission at Pakʼekʼem, where they were well received by the ''[[cacique]]'' (native chief) and his pagan priest. Pakʼekʼem was sufficiently far from the new Spanish road that it was free from military interference, and the friars oversaw the building of a church in what was the largest mission town in Kejache territory. A second church was built at Bʼatkabʼ to attend to over 100 Kejache refugees who had been gathered there under the stewardship of a Spanish friar;<ref>Jones 1998, p. 160.</ref> a further church was established at Tzuktokʼ, overseen by another friar.<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 160–161.</ref>