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APPENDIX. 



of Ajau Katun, because they began to be counted from the day ^jaw, which 

 was the second day of those years that began in Cauac; but as these days 

 and numbers were taken from years which had run their course, the peri- 

 ods of 24 years could never have an arithmetical order, but succeeded each 

 other according to the numbers 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. As 

 the Indians established the number 13 as the first, it is probable that some 

 remarkable event had happened in that year, because, when the Spaniards 

 came to this peninsula, the Indians reckoned then the 8th as the 1st, that 

 being the date at which their ancestors came to settle it; and an Indian 

 writer proposed that they should abandon that order also, and begin count- 

 ing from the 11th, solely because the conquest had happened in that. Now 

 if the 13 Ajau Katun began on a second day of the year, it must be that 

 year which began on 12 Cauac, and the 12th of the indiction. The 11 Ajau 

 would commence in the year of 10 Cauac, which happens after a period of 

 24 years, and so on with the rest; taking notice that after that lapse of 

 years we come to the respective number marked in the course of the Ajaues, 

 which is placed first ; proving that they consist of 24, and not, as some 

 have believed, of 20 years. 



Series of the years completed in two Ajau Katunes, having their beginning in 

 the year of our Lord 1488, in which the \Mh Ajau commences on the 2d day 

 of the year 12 Cauac, bei7ig the l2th of the first indiction. 



A.D. 



13ih Ajau. 





A.n. 



13ih Aiau. 





A.D. 



lllh Ajiu. 





AD. 1 



1 Ith Ajau. 





1488 



12. Cauac 



r 



1500 



11. Cauac 



r 



1512 



10. Cauac 





1524 



9. Cauac 



r 



1489 



13. Kan 





1501 



12. Kan 





1513 



11. Kan 





1525,10. Kan 





1490 



L Muluc 





1502 



13. Muluc 



3 



1514 



12. Muluc 





1526 11. Muluc 



3 



1491 



2. Gix 



B 



1503 



l.Gix 



» 



1515 



13. Gix 





1527 12. Gix 



V 



1492 



3, Cauac 





1504 



2. Cauac 





1516 



1. Cauac 





1528 13. Cauac 





1493 



4. Kan 





1505 



3. Kan 





1517 



2. Kan 



p 



1529 



1. Fan 





1494 



5. Muluc 





1506 



4. Muluc 





1518 



3. Muluc 





1530 



2. Muluc 



c 



1495 



6. Gix 





1507 



5. Gix 





1519 



4. Gix 





1531 



3. Gix 



3 



1496 



7. Cauac 





1508 



6. Cauac 





1520 



5. Cauac 





1532 



4. Cauac 





1497 



8. Kan 



1=1 



1509 



7. Kan 





1521 



6. Kan. 





1533 



5. Kan 



P ^ 



1498 



9. Muluc 





1510 



8. Muluc 





1522 



7. Muluc 





1534 



6. Muluc 



c ^ 

 = o 



1499 10. Gix 





1511 



9. Gix 





1523 



8. Gix 



3 



1535 



7. Gix. 





The fundamental point of departure from which to adjust the Ajaus with 

 the years of the Christian era, to count the periods or cycles which have 

 elapsed, and to make the years quoted by the Indians in their histories 

 agree with the same era, is the year of our Lord 1392, which, according to 

 all sources of information, confirmed by the testimony of Don Cosme de 

 Burgos, one of the conquerors, and a writer (but whose observations have 

 been lost), was the year in which fell the 7 Cauac, giving in its second day 

 the commencement of 8 Ajau; and from this, as from a root, all that pre- 

 ceded and have followed it are adjusted according to the table of them 

 which has been given; and as this agrees with all the series that have been 

 found, it is highly probable that it is the correct one. 



"At the end of each Ajau Katun, or period of 24 years," says a manu- 



