Note 45 — NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.

Señor Perez in his commentary makes his calculation that 1496 was the year of the death of Chief Ajpulà, and succeeds in giving it a plausible appearance of correctness. But we observe that in order to reach this date he was not aware of having altered the words of the Maya text, and those of his own translation. This translation said correctly: “There were still six years wanting before the completion of the 13th Ahau.” In the text of the commentary, however, we find him starting his count on the supposition that the original text was the sixth year of the 13th Ahau. Though this change is by no means allowable, he succeeds, ingeniously enough, in arriving at the year above quoted, and in stating also the dates of the day and month, precisely as the annalist had set them down.