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ABORIGINAL WRITING IN MEXICO, ETC. 



manuscripts which the Mayas, like the Egyptians, placed into the coffins 

 confining the corpses of their priests." * 



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Fig. U. 



KAN. CHICCHAN. CrMI. MANIK. LAMAT. 



MUUUC. 

 IX. 



CAUAC. AHAU. YMIX. 



DAYS OF THE MAYA CALENDAR (LANDA1. 



FlO. 15. 

 POP. VJO. ZIP'. T20Z. TZEC^ 



XUU. VAXKIN. MOU. CHEN. VAX. 



PAX. KAYAB. CUMHU. 



MONTHS OF THE MAYA CALENDAR (LANDA). 



* Landa : Relation etc., p. v. — Only a short time ago I learned that a catechism written in the Maya char- 

 acters, and accompanied by a Spanish translation, has been lately discovered in an old library in Spain. The 

 matter, however, is kept secret for the present. These facts were stated by M. Alphonse Pinart in a letter 

 addressed in May, 1879, to Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, of Major Powell's survey. 



