On the day 13 Ah was completed the third cycle since the Revolt was made. The third cycle was completed in the year 1558. 185. When we were in the eleventh month of the year, a President Royal arrived, on the day 3 Qat. When he arrived at Pangan on 1 Akbal, Don Diego Pez was inaugurated as chief by the ruler Ramirez. Six months after the arrival of the President at Pangan, began here again the pestilence which had formerly raged among the people. It came from a distance. It was truly terrible when this death was sent among us by the great God. Many families bowed their heads before it. The people were seized with a chill and then a fever; blood issued from the nose; there was a cough, and the throat and nose were swollen, both in the lesser and the greater pestilence. All here were soon attacked. These maladies began, O my children, on the day of the Circumcision, a Monday, and as I was writing, we also were attacked with the disease. Diego Ernandez Xahil and Francisco Ernandez Galel Bagahol were Alcaldes in the year 1559. The first year of the fourth cycle since the revolt was completed on the day 10 Ah. NOTES. 1. The author begins by stating his purpose in a few lines. _xtinu[c,]ibah_, future of _[c,]ibah_, to write, originally to paint. _xeboço_, past tense, third person, plural, of the absolute form of _boç_, here, as often, used actively. Compare _Gram._, p. 49. _la[t]abex_, passive of _la[t]abeh_, to inhabit, to settle. _huyu ta[t]ah_, hills and plains, or, the interior and the coast; an expression meaning the whole country. _que cha_, they say, used as the French _on dit_, indicating that the writer is reporting the words of another. _ki_, an intensive or affirmative particle, thrown in to add strength to the expression. _ka tata_, our fathers, _ka mama_, our grandfathers and ancestors more remote than fathers. These terms are to be understood in a general sense. _yx nu qahol_, you my sons, or _yx ka qahol_, you our sons, intimates that this account was prepared for the family of the writer. _pa Tulan._ The prep. _pa_ (before a vowel _pan_) means in, at, to, and from. Torresano (_MS. Gram._) renders it by the Latin _ad_, _pro_, _absque_, _ab_, _de_, _e_, _ex_. Brasseur translates these words “being still in Tulan,” which does not make sense. 2. _[t]a[t]avitz_, _Zactecauh_. Both these names of the ancestral heroes of the Cakchiquels appear to be partly Nahuatl. _[t]a[t]_ is “fire,” and _Zak_ is “white,” both Cakchiquel words, but _vitzli_, thorn, and _techatl_, the stone of sacrifice, are Nahuatl. _[c]haka palouh_, the other side of the sea. The word _palouh_ appears to be derived from the verb _paloh_, to lift onesself up, to rise, referring to the waves. _pe vi_, and _vi pe_; on the use of the particle _vi_, see _Grammar_, p. 63. _pa Tulan ru bi huyu_, from the country or place called Tulan. The word _huyu_ usually means hill or mountain; but it is frequently used in the vague sense of “place,” “locality.”