4. _Ti chibil uinic_ "for men to be eaten;" _chibil_, the passive of _chii_, to eat. The _Diccionario de Motul_ gives _chibil bak_, flesh to be eaten. _Pic_ was the breech cloth or waist cloth, fastened around the waist and falling to the knees, which was the common dress of the women. The Dictionary just quoted translates the word, "naguas de Indias que se sirven de saya ó faldellin ordinario, para cubrir desde la cintura abajo; y son las blancas sin color ni bordado." The phrase _ixma pic ɔul_, foreigners without a breech cloth, intimates that they were nude. Who were these naked cannibals, who raided the provinces in order to obtain their unnatural food? Those daring navigators, those naked man-eaters, the Caribs, from whose name our word _cannibal_ is derived, at once suggest themselves. Curiously enough, the Abbe Brasseur has argued for the probability of their invasions upon other (though I think insufficient) grounds (see his _Informe acerca de las Ruinas de Mayapan y de Uxmal_). This passage of the chronicle renders his theory probable. 5. _Peten tan cah Mayapan_ could also be rendered, "the district Tancah Mayapan." 6. _Cħabi Otzmal u tunile_, "the stone of Otzmal was taken." Otzmal was a locality under the rule of the Cocomes. (Cogolludo, _Historia_, Lib. III, cap. VI.) Other versions read Itzmal and Uxmal. The reference is to the _u heɔ katun_, the setting up of the Katun-stone as a memorial at the end of each period of twenty years. Incomplete descriptions of this ceremony are given by Landa, _Relacion_, § IX, and Cogolludo, _Historia_, Lib. IV, cap. IV. I propose a more extended examination of this question in a future volume of this series, devoted to documents relating to the calendars and chronology of the Central American nations. 8. The death of Ahpula Napot Xiu is given with minuteness but not in accordance with previous chronicles. In 1519 Cortes touched at the Island of Cozumel, and that might have been assumed as the date of the commencement of Christianity. FOOTNOTES: [167-1] caua. [167-2] cahiob. [168-1] Toral. V. THE CHIEF KATUNS. _From the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel._ The document which follows is brief, but of peculiar interest. It does not appear to aim at a connected history of events, but in the form of a chant to refer certain incidents to the katuns in which they occurred. It has more of a mythological character, and the repetitions remind one of the refrain of a song. It is also found in the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel, and is inserted without explanation or introduction, copied, no doubt, from some ancient writing. TEXT. 1. Can ahau u kaba katun; uchci u zihilob----[178-1]pauaha en cuh u yahauob. 2. [178-2]Oxhunte ti katun lic u tepalob, lay u kabaob tamuk u tepalob lae. 3. Can ahau u kaba katun; emciob [178-3]noh hemal, [178-4]ɔeemal, u kabaob lae. 4. Oxlahunte ti katun, lic u tepalob, lic u kabaticob, ti i ualac u cutob. Oxlahun cuthi, u cutob lae.