The words _tan cah Mayapan_ (not Mayalpan as before) are rendered by Pio Perez and Brasseur as the name of a province or district; but as they simply mean "in the middle of the city of Mayapan," it appears to be their signification here. 12. "After the fortress was depopulated" or destroyed. This no doubt refers to the fortress of Mayapan, spoken of in the previous section. Aguilar and his companions were wrecked on the coast of Yucatan, in 1511, and this is probably the earliest date of any actual landing of Europeans, although in 1506, Pinzon had sighted the eastern shores. 13. _Mayacimil_, "the death of the Mayas," a term applied to a general and fatal pestilence. Such are referred to by Landa (_Relacion_, § X.) and Cogolludo (_Historia de Yucatan_, Lib. IV, cap. VI),[TN-19] The _Diccionario de Motul_, MS. has this entry: "MAYACIMIL: una mortandad grande que fué en Yucatan. Y tomase por qualquier mortandad y pestilencia que lleva mucha gente." _Noh kakil_, _noh_, great, _kak_, fire, is the usual word for the smallpox. The reference to the death of Ahpula, who, as we learn from another chronicle, was a member of the royal Xiu family, is especially valuable as assigning a definite date in both the Maya and European calendars. It is specified with great minuteness, and yet Pio Perez made the serious error in his computations regarding the Maya calendar of reading "the sixth year of the 13th ahau" instead of "six years from the close of the 13th ahau," as, in fact, he himself elsewhere translated it. The expression _u xocol haab ti lakin cuchie_, "the reckoning of the year was toward the East," refers to the circle or wheel marked with the four cardinal points by which the years were arranged with reference to the four "year-bearers" Kan, Muluc, Ix and Cauac. The last words of this section, "sixty years after the fortress was destroyed," are an obvious error, as in the preceding section this date is said to be that of the first arrival of the Spaniards. 14. _Kul uincob_, "mighty men," from _kul_, strong, powerful, probably akin to _ku_, god, but not with the religious signification which _kuyen_ has (see page 125). _Caputzihil_, literally "to be born a second time." Bishop Landa assures us positively that a rite of baptism was known to the Mayas before the arrival of the whites, and that this name was applied to it (_Relacion_, p. 144). As will be seen on a later page, Maya writers usually employed another term to express Christian baptism. The year in which Bishop Francisco Toral first came to Yucatan was 1562 (Cogolludo, _Hist. de Yucatan_, Lib. VI, cap. VI). He died in Mexico in 1571. The remainder of this chronicle has never been translated or published. It refers to facts after the Conquest, but I think it of interest to give it completely, as its manner of dealing with known dates will throw light on its general accuracy.