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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



The Other document begins as follows : " On . 

 the tenth of August, in the year one thousand five 

 hundred and fifty-six, the special judge arrived w^ith 

 his interpreter, Gaspar Antonio, yr6>m Vxmal, when 

 they reached this chief village of Mani, with the 

 other caciques that followed them, Don Francisco 

 Che, governor of Ticul, Don Francisco Pacab, gov- 

 ernor of Tekax, Don Alonzo Pacab, governor of 

 Jan, Don Juan Che, governor of Mama, Don Alon- 

 zo Xiu, governor of Tekit, with the other govern- 

 ors of his suite, Don Juan Cacom, governor of Te- 

 koh, with Don Gaspar Fun, Don Juan Camal, gov- 

 ernor of Nunhini, Don Francisco Ciz, other gov- 

 ernor of Cosuma, Don Juan Cocom, governor of 

 Zotuta, Don Gonzalo Fuyu, governor of Tixcacal- 

 tuyu, Don Juan Han, governor of Yaxcaba ; those 

 were brought to this chief village of Mani from Vx- 

 mal, with the others named, and the judge Felipe 

 Manrique, with Gaspar Antonio, commissioned in- 

 terpreter." Of this, too, the rest is omitted, not be- 

 ing relevant to this subject. 



The reader will observe that, fifteen or sixteen 

 years after the foundation of Merida, Mani had the 

 same pre-eminence of position as when Tutul Xiu 

 went up with his dependant caciques to make sub- 

 mission to the Spaniards. It was the " chief vil- 

 lage," the central point for meeting and settling the 

 boundaries of villages ; but it appears, on the face 

 of these documents, that great changes had already 

 occurred. In fact, even at that early date we see 



