Note 127 — THE ANNALS OF THE CAKCHIQUELS. (continued 3)
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hac, the pestilence. Brasseur translates this “la maladie syphilitique.” The vowel is long, haac. It is a word applied to any eruptive disease, to the whole class of exanthemata. From the symptoms, I am inclined to believe that it was an epidemic of malignant measles, a disease very fatal to the natives of Central America.
