History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6
CHAPTER XXIV.
DOWNFALL OF THE QUICHÉ NATION. April, 1524.
Utatlan, Capital of the Quichés—Its Magnificence—The Royal Palace and Pyramidal Fortifications—Private Apartments and Gardens—Plan to Entrap the Spaniards—A Feast Prepared—The Enemy Invited—The Treachery Discovered—Masterly Retreat of Alvarado—The Quiché King and Nobles Entrapped—They are Made to Gather Gold—And are then Destroyed—Utatlan Burned and the Country Devastated—Subjugation of the Quichés Complete 643