Note XXIII-9 — Chapter XXIII · CONQUEST OF GUATEMALA BEGUN. February-March, 1524.
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'La mucha sangre de Indios que avia corrido en Rios en Xequikel (que por esso se llamó assi).' Vazquez, Chronica de Gvat., 524. 'Xequiqel, que quiere decir rio de sangre.' Juarros, Guat., ii. 250. This last author states that from the river Zamalá to the Olintepec six battles were fought, but that this was the most strongly contested and the most bloody. Compare Alvarado, Relacion, in Barcia, 158; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 174; Fuentes y Guzman, Recordacion Florida, MS., 3-4; Gomara, Hist. Mex., 229.