152 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vo. VI. 
They are situated in a wild and solitary part of the country where the 
natives ‘see as little of strangers as the Arabs about Mount Sinai, and 
are more suspicious.’ For this reason they have not been very carefully 
explored. It is known that these ruins extend two or three miles 
along the left bank of the river Copan. Not much has been done to 
discover how far they extend from the river into the forest.” Mr. 
Stephens, however, has preserved the inscription of these ruins, which, 
historically, is more valuable than mere descriptions of buildings. 
The inscription, as may be seen in the plate, consists of six lines, 
each containing six groups of hieroglyphics, which call for the same 
attention as those of Palenque. The first, that on the left in line 1, 
begins with the well-known fo, 5, over a cartouche containing writing, 
dztb. It is doubtful whether the subscribed ox, 3, should be read as 
such, or at all. No. 2 is holhun, 15, followed by ox, 3, and fet, the circle; 
3 is proc, a hat, and a cartouche which looks like another dz26, but 
which, in the meanwhile, may be regarded as fu, a stone. Then 
follows group 4, consisting of duluc, 11, hun, 1, ch, a face, and ox, 3. In 
the Palenque Tablet, Buluc is the name of a place, and the Hunich its 
an official of some kind, an intendant or ambassador. This sentence 
reads: “ Hodztb Holhun Oxpet puchtun Buluc Hunich:” “The Ahtzib 
(writer) of Holhun, Oxpet, fought the Hunich of Buluc.” This is the 
literal translation. Really, it was the Hunich who fought Oxpet. No. 
5 is Oxlahun-Pek, again, although the dog, fek, is very different from 
that of Palenque, and more like a parrot, perhaps the bird Vaku. No. 
6 is 12, in Cachiquel, Cablahun, followed by ca, 2, and ¢un, stone. Line 
2, No. 1 begins with the comb-like ca, in this inscription standing for 
can, 4, followed by mak, to eat soft things, to eat without chewing, and 
by £aé, the hand or arm, either qualified by or, 3, or by 04, plurality, 
No. 2 consists of kuz, 1, rec, division, Aun, 1, kab, the hand (see line 5, 
No. 1), and a final comb, that may be can, nak, or xul. Regarding it 
provisionally as cam, we may read: “ Oxlahun-Pek Cablahun katun can 
makkab Hunzichuncabcan:” “Oxlahun-Pek Cablahun army tells to 
imprison Hunzichuncabcan.” The last name may mean wn, the one, 
«ic, dividing, hun, one, cab, country, can, powerful, or zuc, great. Thus 
he would be, the one dividing a great country. 
The sentence is completed in the two following groups. No. 3 con- 
tains ox and fet, followed by ca ca, which must give chuc or chaac, to kill 
or the killer. No. 4 is kalkad, the finger, holhun, 15, thun, a drop, and 
‘326, writing. The whole may be rendered : “ Oxpet chuca kalkab Holhun 
