202 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vo.. VI. 
north of Uxmal. In his Indian map of Mani, however, no such plan 
appears, but the principal town to the east of Mani is called 
Oxkuzcab.t The Bolon and Buluc of the inscription may be Bolonchen 
and Bulucchen of Yucatan rather than Palenque and Baliz, yet the 
latter supposition is not at all improbable. 
The Oxyib were evidently a people speaking a different dialect from 
that employed by the inhabitants of Chichen-Itza, as they wished to 
have inscriptions in their own tongue, which to them was sweeter or 
pleasanter than the Maya. The only Maya-Quiche people whose name 
approaches that of the Oxyib were the Uxab,a branch of the Pokomans, 
who, in the time of Qikab of Quiche, dwelt in Vera Paz. The Ahau of 
Rabinal in Vera Paz had first wasted this people, and then Qikab sub- 
dued them and him. The remains of the population of their cities 
constituted that which occupies, even to-day, Coban and its suburbs, 
called by the Indians of the country, Uxab Pokoma.* The Pokomans 
themselves were a branch of the Mams,and Poko was their distinguishing 
title. There is no tradition known to the writer of these Uxab of Poko 
migrating in part to northeastern Yucatan, yet few migrations of 
peoples have more probability on their side than this. _Hemmed in by 
the aggressive Quiche and Cachiquel rulers, it was but natural that some 
of their more adventurous spirits should skirt the eastern coast of 
Yucatan nearest to them, and seek, in its northern part, a home in 
which, for a time at least, they might preserve their independence. 
There is, indeed, little doubt that the Oxyib were the same people as 
the Uxab of Vera Cruz, and the Ekab of northeastern Yucatan. Poko 
was the chief title of the Uxab, and Box of the Ekab, while the ruler of 
the Oxyib or Oxyub was named Ox Buc. These are not fortuitous 
resemblances. The Mani, and thus the Uxab, dialect was related more 
closely to the Quiche-Cachiquel group of languages than to the Maya, 
which explains the desire of the Oxyib to have inscriptions in their own 
tongue. It would be interesting to know if there are any remains of the 
old Pokoman dialect in what used to be the province or canton of Ekab, 
east of Chichen-Itza. 
The inscriptions so far read have nothing to say of the conquering 
Qikab, unless he be the Yokchi Cayub of the armies of Quiche Cawek, 
whom both the Chichen-Itza documents represent as in a subordinate 
position to Huntoh and Oxcabuc, the Cachiquel rulers. The inscription 
of the Chichanchob sets forth Huntoh as the principal personage in the 
suppression of the rebellion, although the communications with 
Oxcabuc, the father of Oxlahun-Pek, who is called the Hunich of 
