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Updated: June 3, 2025
Cogolludo, in his history of Yucatan, speaking of the manner in which they computed time, says: “They counted their ages and eras, which they inscribed in their books every twenty years, in lustrums of four years. * When five of these lustrums were completed, they called the lapse of twenty years katun, which means to place a stone down upon another. * In certain sacred buildings and in the houses of the priests every twenty years they place a hewn stone upon those already there.
And now in place of months we must begin to count by lustrums; and the first five years, even with all the thoughts of his dead, or, at least, lost Mary, proved in Halket's case the truth of the book written by a Frenchman, to prove that man is a plant; for he had already thrown out from his head or heart so many roots in the Virginian soil that he was bidding fair to be as firmly fixed in his new sphere as a magnolia, and if that bore golden blossoms, so did he; yet, true to his first love, there was not among all these flowers one so fair as the fair-haired Mary.
He had been gone three days, and, in their lapse, Theo felt as if three lustrums had passed. Their parting had been so unexpected a one, that she could not get used to it, or believe it was anything else but a painful dream. After all, it seemed that Fortune was crueller than she had imagined possible.
Then the aged man placed a hand upon Pym's head, and drew it down to him; and the man who had lived thousands of years whispered some words into the ear of the youth who had lived not yet four lustrums.
"Hout, awa', Lundie! ye dinna know the sax, and that's the reason yer unmarried in yer forty-fifth year. It's a fearfu' time ye've been a bachelor, Major!" "And what may be your age, Lieutenant Muir, if I may presume to ask so delicate a question?" "Forty-seven; I'll no' deny it, Lundie; and if I get Mabel, there'll be just a wife for every twa lustrums.
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