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thorn. These people were therefore probably called Omitl and Uitz. 

 The angular figure over the head of the fourth person, which seems 

 likewise to be a name hieroglyph, I can not explain. 



Footprints are drawn on both fragments, running between the 

 various representations, denoting a road or a journey in each respec- 

 tive direction. On fragment III (plate viii) the lower row of foot- 

 prints leads from above on the left to below on the right; the upper 

 row from below on the right to above on the left. On fragment IV 

 (plate ix) there is a similar indication of paths leading in two direc- 

 tions. If we hold the fragment as the figures stand, the footprints 

 on the left lead downward from above — in this row there is but one 



Fig. 42. Figures from Mexican manuscript, fragment IV. 



footprint — but on the right they lead upAAard from below. The 

 tracks themselves, rudely sketched, are verj^ different from the usual 

 delicate drawing Avhicli we saw, for instance, in the paths on frag- 

 ment II (plate VII ). But this very fact showed me at a glance that 

 a fragment preserved years ago in the Biblioteca Nacional at Mexico, 

 from which I made a little drawing at the time, must have belonged 

 to the same large manuscript. Here, in a bow-shaped green inclosure, 

 are to be seen the four persons whom I reproduce in figure 42 from 

 the drawing just mentioned. Above, on the right, is a man invested 

 in the insignia of a priest, meca-cozcatl and ie-tecomatl (see pages 

 146 to 148), wearing the face painting of the fire god, the god who 



