Note 917 — Chapter III

This was in 1843, when Stephens made his English translation from Pio Perez’s Spanish version, Antigua Chronologia Yucateca; and from Stephens’s text, Brasseur gave it a French rendering in his edition of Landa. (Cf. also his Nat. Civilisées, ii. p. 2.) Perez, who in Stephens’s opinion (Yucatan, ii. 117) was the best Maya scholar in that country, made notes, which Valentini published in his “Katunes of Maya History,” in the Pro. of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., Oct., 1879 (Worcester, 1880), but they had earlier been printed in Carrillo’s Hist. y Geog. de Yucatan (Merida, 1881). Bancroft (Nat. Races, v. 624) reprints Stephens’s text with notes from Brasseur.