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puchtunob:” “Oxlahun-Pek (at) the town of Oaxaca hears (that) the 
warriors of Cakaaxha utterly destroyed three houses of the Nakhuns.” 
V 11 is not Cah Cawek, but Cah kad, and, as W 11 is waclahun ahau (see 
W 1), it must denote the son’ of Cocyoéza, whom the Mexicans called 
Cocyopi. X II is wuc 7, can, 4, and a very indistinct mzyal or mol. 
S 12 contains do/om and oxtokob. This may be rendered: “ Cahcab 
Uuclahun ahau hauac canmolob Bolon yoktockob :” “Cocyopi, the 
Zaachilla King, ceased parleying (with) the rebels of Palenque.” 
T 12 is Oxlahun ahauob, and U 12 is akpop. V 12 is difficult; ho is 
there, and pop, the mat, and fet, the wheel; perhaps it is /opoppet, or . 
ubah bet, makes to hear or understand. W 12 is wavrac ahauob, and X 12 
is can kat ahauob, while S 13 is nak xicenob. Together the words are: 
“ Oxlahun ahauob ahpop ubah bet Uaxac ahauob can cax ahauob nak 
aiinob:” “The Ahpop makes the chiefs of Oxlahun to understand 
(that) the Kings of Oaxaca destroy the very united chiefs.” T 13 is 
the name.of the King of Oaxaca, Cakaaxa ; and U 13 consists of ca, 2, 
and pach, the back, doubtless making chab pach, take prisoner. V 13 
reads waxaclahun, 18, and wuactokob, which, in D1, has been read 
Huastees. This brief sentence gives: “ Cakaarha chab pach uaxaclahun 
Uactokob :” “ Cakaaxha takes prisoners eighteen Huastecs.” W 13 is 
nakob, and X 13, which adds the ear, zak rzcinob. S 14 gives can, 4, and 
a wavy line descending from the top of an oval, which comparison 
shews to denote pak ; the circle in the right hand corner is probably the 
border chz; so that the whole is caxpakcht or Chunbezah. T 14 is 
lahun-pek, ten dogs, but Brasseur calls the son of Cablahuh-Tihax by 
the name of Lahuh-Noh? Noh is the seventeenth day of the Guate- 
malan month, and means a temple; the Maya word for temple is kuna, 
but za simply means a house, so that pak, a building might answer to it. 
V 14 reads, bolonlahun ahauob, but should be olon lukun ahauob, the 
separating chiefs of Palenque. V 14 is or kar ahauob; and W 14 
oxlahun pach or pek. This completes the sentence : “xakob nakxicinob 
Chunbezah Lahun-Pek Bolon lukun ahauob ox kax ahauob Oxlahun-Pek :” 
“The Chunbezah and Lahun-Pek meet and entirely destroy the chiefs 
separating Palenque, the three united chiefs of Oxlahun-Pek.” 
X 14 contains Oxlahun-Pek and Oxmuyalob. S 15 is ox uuctokod, 
which should probably be read ox hauac tockob, the three, Aauwac, ceasing, 
tock, to oppose. Cah Cawek is T 15, U 15 is nxakob, a form of naka, to 
approach. These words are: “ Orlahun-Pek Uxmalob ox hauac tokob 
Cah Cawek nakob :” “ The three ceasing to oppose those of Uxmal join 
Oxlahun-Pek at the house of Cawek.” V 15 is an extraordinary com- 
pound of the symbol of cultivation pak, the bundle ca, and the dog ek, 
