APPENDIX TO VOL. II. 



A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN THE MAYA LANGUAGE, TREATING OP THE PRINCI- 

 PAL EPOCHS OF THE HISTORY OF THE PENINSULA OF YUCATAN BEFORE THE 

 CONQUEST. WITH COMMENTS BY DON PIO PEREZ. 



Principal Epochs of the Ancient History of Yucatan. 



Maya. 



Lai u tzolan Katun lukci ti cab ti 

 yotoch Nonoual cante anflo Tutul 

 Xiu ti chikin Zuina; u luumil u 

 talelob Tulapan chiconahthan. Can- 

 te bin ti Katun lie u ximbalob ca 

 uliob uaye yetel Holon Chantepeuh 

 yetel u cuchulob: ca hokiob ti pe- 

 tene uaxac Ahau bin yan cuchi, uac 

 Ahau, can Ahau cabil Ajau, can- 

 kal haab catac hunppel haab ; tumen 

 hun piztun oxlahun Ahau cuchie ca 

 uliob uay ti petene cankal haab ca- 

 tac hunppel haab tu pakteil yete cu 

 xinbalob lukci tu luumilob ca talob 

 uay ti petene Chacnouitan lae. 



Vaxac Ahau, uac Ahau, cabil 

 Ajau kuchci Chacnouitan Ahmekat 

 Tutul Xiu hunppel haab rainan ti 

 hokal haab cuchi yanob Chacnoui- 

 tan lae. 



Laitun uchciu chicpahal Tzucub- 

 te Ziyan-caan lae Bakhalal, can 

 Ahau, cabil Ahau, oxlahun Ahau 

 oxkal haab cu tepalob Ziyan-caan 

 ca emob uay lae: lai u haabil cu 

 tepalob Bakhalal chuulte laitun 

 chicpahi Chichen Itza lae. 



Vol. II.— N n n 



Translation. 



This is the series of " Katunes," or 

 epochs, that elapsed from the time of 

 their departure from the land and 

 house of Nonoual, in which were the 

 four Tutul Xiu, lying to the west of 

 Zuina, going out of the country of 

 Tulapan. Four epochs were spent 

 in travelling before they arrived here,, 

 with Tolonchantepeuj and his fol- 

 lowers. When they began their jour- 

 ney toward this island, it was the 

 8th Ajau, and the 6th, 4th, and 2d 

 were spent in travelling ; because in 

 the first year of the 13th Ajau they 

 arrived at this island, making togeth- 

 er eighty-one years they were travel- 

 ling, between their departure from 

 their country and their arrival at this 

 island of Chacnouitan. 



In the 8th Ajau arrived Ajmekat 

 Tutul Xiu, and ninety-nine years 

 they remained in Chacnouitan. 



Then took place the discovery of 

 the province of Ziyan-caan, or Baca- 

 lar; the 4th Ajau, the 2d, and the 

 13th, or sixty years, they ruled in 

 Ziyan-caan, when they came here. 

 During these years of their govern- 

 ment of the province of Bacalar oc- 

 curred the discovery of Chichen Itza. 



