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Title: Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906
Subjects: Indians -- Antiquities Guatemala -- Antiquities Mexico -- Antiquities North America -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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stronghold of bandits than a town ofcitizens.* A curious circumstance is mentioned by him ashappening during his march against Utatlan. Onthe way, and near some rising ground, he saw theIndians sacrifice a woman and a dog, and he saysthat his interpreters told him that this act meantdefiance. This statement is remarkable because ithas always been supposed that dogs were not foundamongst the Mexicans. Bernal Diaz observes that * First Report of Pedro de Alvarado to Cortes, dated Utatlan,llth April, 1524. QUICHE CHIEFS, 227 these dogs were of small size, that they were usedfor food, and did not bark. Before leaving Utatlan, Alvarado placed in officeas chief of the Quiches, an Indian named Sequechul,who was according to the laws of that race the nextin succession. From this time nothing more wasknown of the Quiches, until the licentiate Alonzode Zurita, passed this way about the year 1554, inthe execution of the duty assigned to him by thecommand of the king, to report upon the condition
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Approach to Utatlan from the plain.Height of mound is about 30 feet. and customs of the Indians, both before and afterthe conquest. Zurita was informed that, before theconquest, the Quiches had three chiefs. The firsthad over his seat or throne three canopies of feathers,the second two, and the third one. He says thatthe city had at one time contained several kues,(small pyramidal altars) dedicated to idols, but thatthey were then in ruins, and the successors of thecaciques were in the utmost poverty. 228 CACIQUES SENTENCED TO BE BURNT. I passed over the ground where Alvarados camphad been pitched, and where the caciques were sen-tenced to be burnt. Certainly the sixteenth centurywitnessed most extraordinary scenes of cruelty andcarnage in this unhappy country. At this distanceof time it is difficult to understand what could havebeen the reasons which impelled the Spaniards toburn the Indians in such numbers. Many of themwere consigned to the flames for disobedience toorders, others u

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