326 Mr. Ranking on Ancient Guatemala. 



conjectured, that part of the Japan expedition was from Assam, 

 ^iiich at that period belonged to the Moguls.) 



At the conquest of Quiche, the Spaniards were opposed by 

 Tecum Umam, who had 232,000 warriors. " He had fortified 

 towns, and in his camp were several military machines, or 

 small castles, formed of beams and planks, which, being placed 

 upon rollers, were moved by armed men. They were filled 

 with great quantities of pikes, arrows, lances, shields, slings, 

 and stones; and attended by chosen bodies of soldiers, to 

 distribute them, (p. 390)." — ^This is very like the warfare of 

 Genghis Khan and Tamerlane ; the arms are the same. The 

 only difference is, that in Asia^ the military machines were 

 drawn by cattle. The golden chair, schools, indigo, archi- 

 tecture, idols, throne, menageries, arms, stockades, and 

 remains of elephants, all tend to prove that Calel was a 

 Chinese Mogul. It is very curious, that some natives of India, 

 in the neighbourhood of Ava, are described in the Periplus, 

 {Sequel by Vincent, p. 115), with "heads long from the fore- 

 head to the chin, and projecting like the face of a horse." 

 See the plate in this Journal, No. V. p. 144. Ava had been 

 invaded by Oguz the Turk, about 650 years B.C. 



The manuscript of Francisco Garcia Calel Tzumpan Xavila, 

 a descendant from the kings of Quichd, written in 1544, relates 

 that thirteen armies left the old continent, headed by as many 

 principal families, who were all related, but five were more 

 illustrious than the rest — the families of Capichoch, Cochohlam, 

 Mahquinalo, Ahcanail, and Belehebcan^. From Capichoch 

 the family of Nimaquiche and all the royal Guatemalans are 

 descended. The Quiches and Mexicans were of the same race 

 and acknowledged relationship. When Montezuma was im- 

 prisoned by Cortez, he sent a private message to Kikab Tanub 

 for assistance f. A certain stone which their forefathers had 

 brought from Egypt, and which they worshipped, split in two 



♦ In personal names this may mean Khan. Genghiscan is the usual spelling of 

 French authors. 



f The Mexican History relates, that Montezuma's predecessor carried his victo- 

 rious arms to Guatemala. It is, however, denied by Juarros that the Mexicans con- 

 quered that kingdom : he says they were repulsed, but that vast numbers of Mexicans 

 were sent, under the disguise of merchants, to settle themselves preparatory to future 

 endeavours. 



