13. The thirteenth ahau; the eleventh ahau took place the pestilence in the fortresses and the smallpox; in the thirteenth ahau Ahpula died; for six years the count of the thirteenth ahau will not be ended; the count of the year was toward the East, the month Pop began with (the day) fourth Kan; the eighteenth day of the month Zip (that is), 9 Imix, was the day on which Ahpula died; and that the count may be known in numbers and years it was the year 1536, sixty years after the fortress was destroyed. 14. The count of the eleventh ahau was not ended when the Spaniards, mighty men, arrived from the east; they came, they arrived here in this land; the ninth ahau Christianity began; baptism took place; also in this katun came the first bishop Toroba by name; this was the year 1544. 15. In the seventh ahau died the first bishop de Landa; in the fifth katun the Fathers first settled at Mani, in the year 1550. 16. As this year was passing the fathers settled upon the water ---- ---- ---- 1552 17. As this year was passing the auditor came and the hospital was built ---- ---- 1559 18. As this year was passing the first governor Dr. Quijada, arrived here ---- ---- 1560 19. As this year was passing the hanging took place ---- ---- ---- ---- 1562 20. As this year was passing the Governor Marshall came and built the reservoirs ---- 1563 21. As this year was passing the smallpox occurred ---- ---- ---- ---- 1609 22. As this year was passing those of Tekax were hanged ---- ---- ---- 1610 23. As this year was passing the towns were written down by Judge Diego Pareja ---- 1611 NOTES. 1. The introductory paragraph is not less obscure in construction than it is important in its historical statements, and I shall give it, therefore, a particularly careful analysis. I have already explained the term _u tzolan katun_; _lukci_ is the aorist of _lukul_, which forms regularly _luki_, but the mutation to _ci_ is used when the meaning _since_ or _after that_ is to be conveyed; as Beltran says, "cuando el verbo trae estos romances, _despues que ò desde que_, como este romance; despues que murio mi padre, estoy triste: _cimci in yume, okomuol_" (_Arte del Idioma Maya_, p. 61). _cab_ means country or place, in the sense of residence, whereas _luum_, used in the same paragraph, is land or earth, in the general sense. The _Dicc. de Motul_ says: "_cab_, pueblo ò region; _in cab_, mi pueblo, donde yo soy natural." _yotoch_ is a compound of the possessive pronoun _u_, his or their, and _otoch_, the word for house when it is indicated whose house it is; otherwise _na_ is used; _otoch_ is probably allied to _och_ a verbal root signifying to give food to, the house being looked upon as specifically the place where meals are prepared.