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FREE TRANSLATION OF THE INSCRIPTION OF THE AKATZEEB, 
Line 1. When the army rebelled, it caused the city to be destroyed ; it 
caused thirty Cachiquels of the Hunichob Oxbuc to be destroyed. 
The rebellious army made destruction, seizing Chichen-Itza, and 
capturing fifteen Cachiquel chiefs. The spoilers destroyed fifteen 
Cachiquels. The army of Lahun-Pek joined the spoilers. 
Zaachilla told the Hunichob the rumour that the rebel army was 
in rebellion. 
Line 22 When Oxbuc told the army to depart from Chichen, they 
destroyed Yokchi Katzib (or the Yokchi of Katzib). The holcan 
(chief caller) of the army made prisoners of the rebels in Yokchi 
Katzib, fourteen at one time, of those ceasing to obey. He wrote 
the lord of Uxmal that the rebel army divided Yokchi Katzib. 
The lord of Uxmal made the Hunichob to be written to. 
Line 3. The warriors of the commune made a word (promise), saying that 
the army when it rebelled made prisoners to remain in prison. 
The president of the army of spoilers made a hole and put fire in it. 
Line 4. The Hunichob of Cachiquel made the army of Buluc to rebel, 
writing to tell the rebel soldiers to plunder the commune of the 
Hunichob. The Yokchi Cayub destroyed the chief of the rebels 
by means of the Hunichob of Palenque. 
CHAPTER XV. 
THE HISTORY RECORDED IN THE CHICHEN-ITZA DOCUMENTS. 
The theatre of the rebellion recorded in the two inscriptions was the 
Cacab, or commune, of Oxyib, in which was a town bearing the same 
name, and near which, or at least at no great distance from which, were 
Katzib and Chichen-Itza. Uxmal, Palenque, and Buluc, or Baliz, are 
also mentioned in the inscription, and the first of these must have been 
within reasonable distance. The ruins of Uxmal are thirty-five miles 
south of Merida, and those of Chichen-Itza are about seventy-eight 
miles to the southeast of the same city. From Chichen-Itza a paved 
road of ancient construction is said to run eastward to the coast, opposite 
the island of Cozumel.' That coast was, in the days of Maya indepen- 
dence, the boundary of the province of Ekab, one of whose rulers was 
Ex Box, who, in 1547, destroyed a Spanish vessel.2 Mr. Stephens 
found ruins called Yakatzib, near Tekax and Mani, that is to say, to the 
