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Chupamtah Chibal mac xanare Cohcolta la ha Vonohel 

 itgel quehe Chucoe. Amen. 



I will add the following numerals, as taken from the 

 same book : 



Whether there is any analogy between this language 

 and that of any of our own Indian tribes, I am not able 

 to say. 



For a man who has not reached that period when a 

 few years tell upon his teeth and hair, I know of no 

 place where, if the country becomes quiet, they might 

 be passed with greater interest than at Santa Cruz del 

 Quiche, in studying, by means of their language, the 

 character and traditionary history of the Indians ; for 

 here they still exist, in many respects, an unchanged 

 people, cherishing the usages and customs of their an- 

 cestors ; and though the grandeur and magnificence of 

 the churches, the pomp and show of religious ceremo- 

 nies, affect their rude imaginations, the padre told us 



Hun, one. 

 Quieb, two. 

 Dxib, three. 

 Quieheb, four, 

 Hoob, five. 

 Uacacguil, six. 

 Veuib, seven. 

 Uahxalquib, eight. 

 Beleheb, nine. 

 Lahuh, ten. 

 Hulahuh, eleven. 

 Cablahuh, twelve. 

 Dxlahuh, thirteen. 

 Cahlahuh, fourteen. 

 Hoolahuh, fifteen. 



Uaelahuh, sixteen. 

 Velahuh, seventeen. 

 Uapxaelahuh, eighteen. 

 Belehalahuh, nineteen. 

 Huuinac, twenty. 

 Huuinac/itm, twenty-one. 

 Huuinachlahuh, thirty. 

 Cauinae, forty. 

 Lahuh Raxcal, fifty. 

 Oxcal, sixty. 



Lahuh Vhumuch, seventy, 



Humuch, eighty. 



Lahuh Rocal, ninety. 



Ocal, a hundred. 



Otuc Rox Ocob, a thousand. 



