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tancab:” “the murderer of Oxpet within the prison of Holhun.” A 
prison is wazcab, but cab means, to imprison. A new sentence begins 
with No. 5, which contains ca, uwac, 6, tun, stone, 0x, 3, and, below these, 
ca tun. In6,a fancy hun, I, unites with the stone to make huntun, and 
four fancy units give can, followed by a form of the mak which has 
appeared in No. 1 of the same line. The rendering is: “ca Uacthanox 
katun hunten can mak :” “then (or where) the speakers of Uac of the 
army at once said no.” The Uac speakers were probably Aztecs, whom 
the people of Guatemala called Yaqui. Line 3, No. 1, by the two stones, 
gives ca tun ; below them is the Palenque za in a new form, and at the 
back is ov, 3. No. 2at once reveals Uaxac ich, shewing at the same time 
that the ox or od forming the basis of the face is not to be read. The 
two together give: “katun nacac Uaxac ich:” “the army ascends into 
Oaxaca.” No. 3 furnishes two cas, and the well known forehead and the 
expedient for the trefoil give kachzlek. In No. 4, cu and ¢ok appear, 
with zzk, the wing, wac, 6, and ¢twz,a small stone. We know that the 
comb-like figure of No. 5 here is caz not ca, in comparison with No. 5 of 
line 5, which represents it by four units. This caz includes ox, 3, and is 
followed by zz with ca inscribed ; the whole giving Canox katunob. The 
first character of No. 6, however, is £a, followed by pak, building, and ¢ux, 
a stone, and its kapaktun answers to the later kebanthan, to rebel. The 
whole reads :“ ca kuxilek than tox xic Uacthan Canox katunob kebanthan:” 
“when the disaffected spread abroad a word to the Uac speakers of the 
armies of Canox to rebel.” 
No. t of line 4 furnishes Oxlahun, and duc, covering, for pek, under 
which comes the wheel, fez, for bet, to make. No. 2 is the counterpart 
of caca in No. 3 of line 2, and, like it, stands for chuca, murderer. No. 3 
contains ox, pet and ¢ok , and the sentence reads: “ Orlahun Pek bet chuca 
Oxpet toc:” “Oxlahun Pek makes the murderer of Oxpet burn.” No. 4 
is, by a mere conjecture, supposed to consist of co and pan, a standard, 
designating the city and district of Copan. It is followed by aehau 
Canox; and No. 6 consists of uz, zch, and a final figure which may be 
nak or xul,the end. These give: “ Copan ahau Canox Hunich nak :” 
“ Canox, king of Copan, finishes the Hunich.” No.1 of line 5 repeats 
No. 2 of line 2, namely, Hunzechuncabcan, for which a translation has 
been proposed. Here, however, it seems to qualify No. 2 which reads 
hun‘, ich, the eye, and a peculiar form of the cross, pak ; altogether, 
Hunich pak or pakob. No. 3, judging by the analogy of the Palenque 
Tablet, should be zakxiczn, to put an end to. No. 4 gives ox, 3, can, 4, 
cab, a bee-hive, and @zzd, writing ; in other words, yok can keb cib, over 
