194 A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TRAOXO. 



Deducting this from 1518, the time when the Spaniards appeared on 

 the coast, it carries us back to the year 870. If carried back only to the first 

 year of the lltli of the first series, it gives the year 918, which differs but 

 17 years from the date (935) given above from Herrera's statement, a differ- 

 ence less than one Ahau. I am inclined, therefore, to believe the first line 

 of the 8tli paragraph properly belongs to the 7th, and that it was the inten- 

 tion of the writer to say that "with the governors of Chichen-Itza and 

 Mayapan these Katunes, 11th, ijtli to the 6th." In the 8th Ahau trouble 

 arose between the parties to the compact, but the war did not end until in 

 the 6th. It is probable, therefore, that the chronicler's data mentioned the 

 11th Ahau as the beginning of the compact, and that this was near the time 

 when Mayapan was built. 



According to Herrera, Chichen-Itza was already in existence when 

 Cuculkan appeared and founded Ma3'apan. He further states that "whilst 

 the Cocomes [who were given authority immediately after Cuculkan's de- 

 parture] lived in this regular manner, there came from the southward, and 

 the foot of tiie mountains of Lacando, great numbers of people, looked 

 upon for certain to have been of the province of Chiapa, who tra\eled forty 

 years about the deserts of Yucatan, and at length arrived at the mountains 

 that are almost opposite to the city of Mayapan, where they settled and 

 raised good structures, and the people of Mayapan some years after, liking 

 their wav of living, sent to invite them to build houses for their lords in 

 the city. The Tuful-Xiu, so the strangers were called, accepting of their 

 courtesy, came into the city, and their people spread about the countr}^, sub- 

 mitting themsfilves to the laws and customs of Mayapan, in such peaceable 

 manner that they had no sort of weapons, killing their game with gins and 

 traps." {Loc. cit.) 



This agrees precisely with the order of events in the Manuscript, except 

 that nothing is mentioned corresponding with the 40 }'ears of the 6th para- 

 graph 



In the prophecy by Nahau Pech, preserved in Lizana's-work and copied 

 by Brasseur into the chrestomathy of his Maya grammar, these passages 

 occur : 



"We have come now to the fourth period," or perhaps more correctly. 



