_U kahlay_, the record, or the memoir, from _kahal_, to remember. The concrete meaning of the root is "to know by sight, to recognize." _ɔiban_, past participle, passive voice, of _ɔib_ to write: the original signification of the word is "to paint." _Yoheltabal_, passive form of _ohel_, to know, which is always conjugated with the pronominal prefixes, _u_, _a_, _y_. _Yolah_, syncopated form of _u uolah_, he wills, wishes, _uol=volo_, _uolah=voluntas_. It will be noticed that this chronicle is not called an "arrangement" of the katuns, _tzolan katun_, but a count or reckoning of them, _xocan_ or _xocol_, from _xoc_, to count. 1. The count begins with the discovery of Chichen Itza, mentions that Pop was "counted in order" at the beginning of the next following Ahau Katun, and having stated the desertion of Chichen Itza and the migration to Chakanputun, the chronicler draws a line, as if to separate broadly these occurrences from those which followed. 5. The distinction between _paa_ and _tulum_ appears to be that _tulum_ is an enclosure surrounded by a defensive wall, and this wall itself; while _paa_ is a castle, or, in Maya land, a mound or pyramid with buildings on it erected for purposes of defence. 6. _Kakil nohkakil_, the fire, the great fire, but here in the sense of a contagious febrile disease, probably the smallpox. 7. The text in this section is corrupt, and I leave a line untranslated. The writer informs us, what was omitted in the previous chronicles, that the Ahpula whose death is so carefully mentioned by all, was a member of the Xiu family which reigned over the province of Mani. They were almost the first of the powerful Maya nobles to make friends with the Spaniards. The date 158 is apparently intended for 1538, or perhaps 1508, which is more consistent with the following section, but less so with the previous chronicles. _Kul uinicob_, as remarked on page 133, means "the mighty men," not the "holy men," as generally translated. The term was applied to the Spaniards. The _Dicc. de Motul_ MS. says:--"KULVINIC: muy hombre, hombre de respeto y de hecho, y llaman así los Indios á los Españoles." _U yah talzah_, they bring the sickness, probably the smallpox. _Coon_ or _con_, 1st pers. pl. pres. indic. of the irregular verb _cen_ (_cihi_, _ciac_), to say, to tell. FOOTNOTES: [156-1] Canil. [157-1] uay. [157-2] chuytabe. IV. THE MAYA KATUNS. _From the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel,_ The following chronicle is stated by its writer to be distinctively called the "Maya Katuns," and to be written for (or by) the Itzas. We have, therefore, no longer to do with the reckoning of the subjects of the Xiu family who ruled at Mani, but with one which emanates from the priests of the Cocomes, who were hereditary masters of Chichen Itza. It is evidently of different origin, although many of the same facts are referred to in it. TEXT. U kahlay katunob utial ahYtzaob mayakatun u kaba lae.