[Controlsocial-usuarios] roke out which the Quiches made again

Tue Sep 1 05:30:48 CEST 2009

Batz, they are succeeded by Lahuh Ah and Oxlahuh Tzii, who carry on
various wars, and especially defeat the Quiches in a general engagement,
which is vividly described (86-93). They also conquer the Akahals,
killing their king Ichal, and the Tzutuhils, with their king Caoke
(94-98). During their reign, a sanguinary insurrection occurred in
Iximche, of such importance that the author adopts its date as the era
from which to reckon all subsequent events (99-104). This date
corresponded to the year 1496, A. D.(?) The following years are marked
by a series of unimportant wars, the outbreak of a destructive
pestilence, and finally, in 1524, twenty-eight years after the
Insurrection, by the arrival of the Spanish forces under Alvarado
(105-144). The later pages are taken up with an account of the struggles
between the natives and the whites, until the latter had finally
established their supremacy. _Remarks on the Printed Text._ In printing
the MS. of Xahila, I have encountered certain difficulties which have
been only partially surmounted. As the Cakchiquel, though a written, is
not a printed tongue, there has no rule been established as to the
separation
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