The thirteenth ahau; the death of Ahpulha took place; it was the sixth year when ended the count of the thirteenth ahau; the count of the year was from the east, (the month) Pop passed on the fifth kan; on the eighteenth of (the month) Zip, 9 Imix, was the day Ahpulha died; it was the year 1536. 14. The eleventh ahau; foreigners arrived--mighty men 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 Toral; the year which was passing was--1544. 15. The seventh ahau; bishop Landa died in this katun. 16. The fifth ahau; the Fathers settled at Mani; the year that was passing was 1550; in the year 1552 they settled upon the water. 17. 1559; this year came the auditor and built the Hospital. 18. 1560; this year arrived Doctor Quixada, the first governor here in this land. 19. 1562; this year took place the hanging. 20. 1563; this year came Mariscal. 21. 1569; this year smallpox occurred. 22. 1610; this year those of Tekax were hanged. 23. 1611; this year the towns were written down by the Judge. NOTES. The entire omission of the introductory paragraph of the Mani chronicle, with its references to the Quetzalcoatl myth, is noteworthy. As neither chronicle begins with the beginning of an Ahau Katun, it is obvious that some era was fixed upon in later days from which to count the Katuns backward in time to the dawn of tradition, as well as forward. 2. On the name _Chacnabiton_ see page 123. 3. _Canpahal_ I take to be an old form of _canchahal_ or _canlaahal_, both of which mean to learn or learn about. On _Zian can_ see page 124. 4. I am at a loss for the exact bearing of the expression _lai tzolci Pop_. Pop is the first month in the Maya year; _tzoolol_ is "to be counted in order" (_Dicc. Motul_); the preterite in _ci_ would seem to justify the rendering "since then Pop was counted in regular succession;" (see remarks on the effect of _ci_, on page 106); in other words, that the calendar was adopted at that time, which was also at the beginning of an Ahau Katun, and, by the count given (supplying the katuns not mentioned by the writer) thirty katuns, 600 years, since their traditions began. 6. _Chuccu_, passive of _chucah_, to seize, take possession of. _Zatahob be_, "they lost the road," probably meant, in a figurative sense, that they were prevented by intervening unfriendly tribes from continuing their intercourse with the western coast. _Biciob_, evidently for _binciob_. The expression _yalan che_, _yalan haban_, _yalan ak_, has already been explained (page 126). 13. _Ocnakuchil._ The derivation of this word is stated to be from _ocol_, to enter, _na_, the houses, _kuch_, the crow or buzzard, the number of the dead being so great that the carrion birds entered the dwellings to prey upon the bodies.