§ 13. Laili ma ↄococ u xocol buluc § 13. Before the termination of the Ahau lae lai ulci españoles kul 11th Ahau, the Spaniards arrived, uincob ti lakin u talob ca uliob holy men from the east came with uay tac luumil lae; bolon Ahau them when they reached the land. hoppci cristianoil uchci The 9th Ahau was the commencement caputzihil: laili ichil u katunil of baptism and Christianity; and in lae ulci yax obispo Toroba u kaba, this year was the arrival of Toroba heix año cu ximbal uchie. (Toral), the first bishop. 1544 años. 1544 A. D. NOTE.—This Manuscript has also an introduction and close, which Señor Perez has not published, because the dates specified occurred in the Spanish epoch, and consequently were of no interest to the Maya student. HISTORY OF THE MANUSCRIPT. In the interest of authenticity it is much to be regretted that neither the name of the author, his residence, nor the date when the Manuscript was written, are known to us, and we are also ignorant of other matters of moment; whether the Manuscript is an original or a copy, or how often copied, or by what family or person it may have been preserved before it came into the hands of Don Juan Pio Perez. That Yucatecan gentleman had retired from Mérida, the capital, to the District of Peto, to devote himself to his favorite studies, the ancient language and the history of his nation. The unusual interest that he showed in this direction, united to his influential position as first officer of the district, enabled him to obtain many small manuscript documents known to have been written by the natives in their vernacular language, the Maya, soon after the time of the conquest, which, for the most part, contained historical reminiscences of the time of the supremacy of their ancestors. Among these manuscripts there was a so-called _Chilam Balam Calendar_, which, in the form of an appendix, contained, besides, the outlines of the primitive history of Yucatan. It was, indeed, but a brief epitome of historical events, accompanied by the corresponding dates. But its value consisted in the circumstance that these dates were catalogued according to successive epochs; and it required only slight inspection to disclose the fact that they extended back to a period not very distant from our Christian Era.