Note 914 — Chapter XX · GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL CLASSES, PROPERTY, AND LAWS OF THE MAYA NATIONS.
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'Aqui havia muy grandes, y sumptuosas comidas, y borracheras.' 'Sentaban al nuevo Electo en vna estera mui pintada.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 342, 338-45. 'In one of the saloons stood the throne, under four canopies of plumage, the ascent to it was by several steps.' Juarros, Hist. Guat., p. 88. The twenty-four counsellors 'carried the emperor on their shoulders in his chair of state whenever he quitted his palace.' Id., p. 189. 'No se diferenciaba el rey de Guatemala ó de Utatlán de los otros en el trage, sino en que él traia horadadas las orejas y narices, que se tenia por grandeza.' Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., pp. 197, 196.