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many hearts. After the defeat of Cay-Hunahpu, the Ahpop Achi 
Cinahitoh, whose valour had so greatly contributed to the triumph of 
the royal arms, had conceived the hope of being raised to the rank of 
Atzih Winak as the reward of his services ; but, whether the Cachiquel 
kings, remembering the revolution which had driven their fathers from 
Chiawar in the reign of Qikab I, feared to bestow too much honour 
upon a plebeian chief, or sought to avoid wounding the nobility which 
had so recently suffered a terrible check, they conferred this dignity 
upon the Ahau Ahmoxnay. Cinahitoh allowed a lively expression of 
dissatisfaction at this choice to escape from him. Envious persons, 
whom his glory threw into the shade, hastened to report his words to 
the king ; the Ahpozotzil, whom probably gratitude already burdened 
too heavily, saw in them danger to his crown, and an outrage to his 
kingly majesty. The fate of Cinahitoh was at once determined, and the 
thirty-sixth day since his arm had delivered Iximche had not passed 
before this illustrious chief fell a victim to the jeaious suspicions of the 
princes to whom he had restored a throne. (From 1499 to 1500 A.D.)” 
“Less than a year after this execution, Ahmoxnay, accused of high 
treason, was in his turn led todeath. The high dignity of Atzih-Winak 
offended the despot, since Cay-Hunahpu had sought to make use of it 
in order to seize his crown ; he spared no means to preserve his authority, 
and by shedding the blood of the most noble in his kingdom, he 
terrified the ambitious ones who cherished the least desire to raise their 
eyes too high. Nevertheless, he did not succeed in reconquering all the 
provinces he had lost ; the less important lordships came back under his 
domination, but most of those of the mountains of Zacatepec united 
under the sovereignty of the Prince of Yampuk, who governed them 
until the conquest, under the title of Galel-Achi. In that quarter he 
only retook Mixco, which was the domain of the Ahpoxahil Cablahuh- 
Tihax, as well as the territory of the Akahales, who had risen with their 
chief Wookaok, at the instigation of the inhabitants of Xiwico ; these 
again were helped by a body of Mexicans, who apparently formed part 
of the great armed caravans which, at that time, traversed the shores of 
the Pacific founding trading posts. 
“Tt was the beginning of the sixteenth century, so prolific of events 
in both worlds, but especially in the western continent, where the 
native races were about to pass altogether under the yoke of strangers. 
Everything seemed to conspire to bring about this great event ; on one 
hand the ambition and despotism of the kings; on the other, the 
jealousy of the inferior classes towards the nobility, whose pride and 
privileges, while they crushed them, excited universal discontent and 
