[91-1] I quote Dr. Berendt's words. "Los datos historicós que publicò Stephens en el Apendice de su obra fueron extractados de tal libro de Chilam Balam en poder de un Indio de Mani, maestro de escuela, que por tener el mismo apelido Balam pretendió ser descendiente del sacerdote de los Mayas que llegó à padrinar esta clase de escritos." _Chilam Balam, Articulos y Fragmentos en Lengua Maya_ MSS., Advertencia, p. vii. I have also in my collection a manuscript copy of what Yucatecan scholars call the _Codice Perez_, a mass of materials copied by Señor Pio Perez, among them this chronicle. The following is his own note at its close:-- "Hasta aqui termina el libro titulado Chilambalam que se conserva en el Pueblo de Mani en poder del maestro de Capilla." [92-1] _The Katunes of Maya History_, A Chapter in the Early Chronology of Central America, with special reference to the Pio Perez Manuscripts. By Philip J. J. Valentini, Ph. D. _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, 1879. (Worcester, Mass. Press of Charles Hamilton, 1880). The reprint is 60 pages, octavo. [92-2] Crescencio Carrillo, _Manual de Historia y Geografia de la Peninsula de Yucatan_, pp. 16-27. (12mo: Merida de Yucatan; imprenta de J. D. Espinosa e Hijos.) [95-1] chichcunahthan. [96-1] uchuc. [96-2] haban. [96-3] ximbal. [97-1] ximbal. [99-1] chulub. [116-1] The Spanish word "poblar" does not mean to people an uninhabited country, but to found villages and gather the people into communities. [120-1] _Historia de las Indias Occidentales Dec._ IV, Lib. X, cap. II. [121-1] _Cacal_ is reduplicated from _cab_, land, province, town. The change from _b_ to _l_ is also seen in _cacalluum_, "tierra buena para sembrar," _Diccionario de Motul_; also in the town names Tixcacal, Xcacal, etc. [132-1] "En toda la Peninsula existen unos cerros á mano ô monticulos artificiales, que comunmente llaman los naturales en idioma Maya _Muul_ en algunos lugares, y en otros _Uitz_." Don Jose T. Cervera in the _Revista de Merida_, Dec. 3, 1871. II. THE SERIES OF THE KATUNS. _From the Book of Chilan Balam of Tizimin._ Tizimin is a town of some importance, in the district of Valladolid, about a hundred miles east of Merida. The "Book of Chilan Balam" which was found there is one of the most ancient known, and appears to have been written about the close of the sixteenth century. It is now in the possession of the eminent antiquary, the Canon Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona, of Merida, who has described it in his work on Maya literature.[136-1] It contains 26 leaves, without numeration, and on the 17th this chronicle is inserted without title or prefatory remarks. It is evidently a version of that previously given from the Book of Mani, although a few additional particulars are stated, and there seems to have been an attempt to arrange the epochs in more completeness.