16. The _cak chee_, red tree, is translated by Father Guzman, “arbol de carreta.” The legendary derivation of the name Cakchiquel from this is doubtful. _[c]hamey_ may mean something more than staff; it is applied to the staff of office, the _bâton de commandement_ carried by the alguacils, etc. The whole paragraph is obscure, but seems to describe their leaving the sandy shore of the sea, passing out of sight of land, then coming in sight of it again, and going ashore. 17. The word _ikan_, burden, here as elsewhere, is usually translated by Brasseur, “tribute.” 18. _Ah chay_, literally, “master of obsidian.” As this stone was largely used for arrow heads and other weapons, the expression in this connection seems to mean “master of arms.” _Ah [c]am_, from _[c]am_, to take, seize. Brasseur construes these words as in apposition to _vach_: “Whom shall we make our master of arms,” etc. _Etamayom_, from the root _et_, mark, sign; _etamah_, to know, to be skilled in an art; _etamayom_, he who knows (see _Grammar_, pp. 27, 56). Brasseur’s rendering, “_le Voyant_,” is less accurate. See his translation of this passage in the _Hist. du Mexique_, Tome II, p. 92. _[c]okikan_; Brasseur gives to this the extraordinary rendering, “parfumés d’ambre.” But Coto states that it was the term applied to the loads of roasted maize, which were the principal sustenance of the natives on their journeys. 19. The narration continues in the words of the ancestral heroes, who speak in the first person, plural. _Nonovalcat_, _Xulpit_; the first of these names is decidedly Nahuatl, and recurs in the _Maya Chronicles_. See Introduction, p. 44. The second is clearly of Maya origin. These localities are located by Brasseur on the Laguna de Terminos, near the mouth of the Usumacinta. 20. Having defeated their enemies in the field, the Cakchiquels seized their boats and ventured an attack on the town, in which they were repulsed. _Zuyva_; this famous name in Aztec mythology, was also familiar to the Maya tribes. (See _The Maya Chronicles_, p. 110.) The term _ah zuyva_ seems here employed as a general term for the Nahuatl-speaking nations. (See above, p. 44.) _Ca[c]_; I do not find this word in any dictionary; perhaps it is for _ca[c,]_, a variety of wasp. “When we asked each other,” etc. Here follow some fragments of legends, explaining the origin of the names of the tribes. They are quite imaginary. _Tohohil_, from _tohoh_, to resound in the water and the sky (sonar el rio y el ayre, _Dicc. Cak. Anon._); not _clangor armorum_, as Brasseur translates it, but sounds of nature. _Tohil_ was the name of the principal Quiche divinity, and was supposed by Brasseur and Ximenez to be an abbreviated form of Tohohil. But I have given reasons for supposing it to mean “justice,” “equity,” and this legend was devised to explain it, when its true etymology had become lost. (See my _Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths_, p. 23.)