fOhstemaxn] the dates OF THE CALENDAR 407 



scrii)t. The month signs below them, with the numbers preceding, 

 are unfortunately entirely obliterated. Since the fifth large serpent 

 of the manuscript is here, a comparison with the dates under the 

 serpents on pages 61 and 62 would be of great importance. 



Page 70 has the normal date no less than six times, in the middle 

 and at the end of the first and second colunms, as also, half obliter- 

 ated, at the beginning of the third and fourth columns ; and, finally, at 

 the end of the fourth colunni is the date, IX 11 ; 12, 1st month, which 

 indicates the year 12 Kan; probabh^, the right-hand lower corner of 

 page 69 is to be completed in accordance with this. In the middle of 

 the page there seem to be four more dates; the two upper ones must 

 have been injured, and consequently I do not venture to affirm pos- 

 itively that the two lower ones are to be read VIII 17 ; 13, 7th month 

 (7 Muluc) and IV 9; 10, 15th month (2 Kan). 



Herewith the calendar dates of our manuscript, and with them my 

 present task, come to a close. I have been obliged to express myself 

 very briefly, and therefore require of the investigator who would 

 closely follow m}^ exposition that he should be in a measure familiar 

 with the previous results of Maya research. Still, I hope I have given 

 an impulse to some one to push farther forward in this field. I might 

 say a good deal more concerning this or that passage of the manu- 

 script, but my i)resent purpose has merely been to throw a clearer 

 light on three important and frequently recurring features. I will 

 only briefly remark that, in regard to the repetitions of the eighth 

 day, Chuen, regularly bunched together, also found in other manu- 

 scripts and always occurring in combinations of three on pages 25 to 

 28, they undoubtedly designate the expiration of 24 (3X8) <lays of 

 the last month, for these pages are concerned with the twenty-fourth' 

 rind twenty-fifth daj^s (which belong properly to no month). 



On pages 42, 43, and 45, at the bottom, there are always six of these 

 Chuen pictures, as an indication that six times eight days have 

 elapsed, as is noted in the line above; but onh' four of these six signs 

 are to be seen on page 44, owing no doubt to want of space. 



