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capacity ; but, after staring stupidly at the pages as 

 if looking at a row of machetes, he said he had 

 grown so old that he had forgotten how to read. 

 My only course was to have copies made, which 

 the schoolmaster set about immediately, and late in 

 the afternoon he placed them in my hands. In the 

 evening, by the permission of the alcalde, I took 

 the book to my quarters, and looked over every 

 page, running my finger along every line, in search 

 of the word Uxmal, but I did not meet with it in 

 any other place, and probably the documents refer- 

 red to are the most ancient, if not the only ones in 

 existence of ancient date, in which that name is 

 mentioned. 



The copies I carried with me to my friend Don 

 Pio Perez, who discovered some errors, and, at 

 his instance, my good friend the cura Carillo went 

 over to Mani, and made exact copies of the map 

 and documents. He also made diligent search 

 through the Maya archives for other papers men- 

 tioning Uxmal, or referring to it in any way, but 

 found none. He added to his copies a translation, 

 which was revised by Don Pio, and it is from his 

 version that what follows is prepared. 



The engraving opposite is a copy of the ancient 

 map, the original of which covers one side of a 

 sheet of foolscap paper. 



The instrument endorsed on the back, as trans- 

 lated, reads as follows : 



" Memorandum of having divided the lands by 



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