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however. Learn that those who shall come will not be half naked like 
you, but clothed and covered with complete armour from head to foot, 
men terrible and cruel. Perhaps it will be to-morrow, perhaps after 
to-morrow, that they will appear. These are they who will destroy 
these stately buildings, and leave these palaces to the wildcats and the 
owls. Then this greatness of which you are so proud will end, then the 
glory of this kingdom will disappear forever.” ” 
Elsewhere, Brasseur takes up the story of the Cachiquels. “ After 
terrible shakings, three powerful kingdoms remained facing each other, 
but ever ready to take up arms to avenge past injuries and commit new 
ones. These were the kingdom of the Quiches, more properly called 
that of Gumarcaah, known to the Spaniards as that of Utlatlan; that of 
the Tzutohils, a fraction of the Cachiquel stock, the capital of which 
was Atitlan on Lake Panahachel ; and, finally, that of the Cachiquels, 
the chiefs of which resided at Iximche, otherwise called Tecpan-Guate- 
mala.... After Qikab II. the throne of Quiche had been occupied 
by Wucub-Noh, and the dignity of Ahpop Camha was borne by Prince 
Cawatepech, to whose name the chronicler Fuentes adds that of Qikab ; 
Wookaok reigned over the Tzutohils ; and the Cachiquels continued to 
have for kings the Ahpozotzil Oxlahuh-Tzy and the Ahpoxahil Cablahuh 
pein ass Se. In the midst of the struggles of the Ahpozotzil with 
his vassals, the Mexican garrisons of the neighbourhood willingly offered 
their aid to the feebler against the stronger ; thus, they had helped the 
Akahales, so cruelly humiliated some years before, to shake off his 
tyrannical yoke. Oxlahuh-Tzy, momentarily cast down by the revolt 
of Cay-Hunahpu, had since recovered all the energy of his character, 
and spared no efforts to break the power of his former tributaries and 
bring them to his feet. They remained independent in spite of his 
efforts ; but he took his revenge on those that had not succeeded in 
breaking his iron yoke by making it harder than ever for them. He 
compelled them to leave their domains and come to live in Iximche, 
where he kept them under his eye,without allowing them to withdraw 
for a moment from his presence. This despotism, which the native 
author himself points out with astonishment, lasted four years; it only 
ended with the life of the Ahpozotzil in the year 1510. Oxlahuh-Tzy, 
whom his descendants regarded as one of the greatest monarchs of 
Cachiquel, had arrived at an advanced age; by his wife, Queen 
Makuxguhay, he left two sons, Hunyg, who was his successor, and 
Belehe-Qat, as well as four others by two concubines. Two years 
after, Cablahuh-Tihax followed him to the tomb, leaving the dignity 
of Ahpoxahil to his eldest son Lahuh-Noh, who reigned con- 
