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FIRST YEAR OF THE AHAU.
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from each other in the numbers indicated. In front of each face is the black numeral character for 11. The red numerals are (?), 9, 7, 5, 3. The first is obliterated, but if we judge by the space it would be 1, if by the order, 1 1; but since the result will be the same, except as to the position of the period obtained by this one in the table of years, it makes no particular difference for the present purpose which we assume is correct. Assuming 11 to be the missing one, the numbers of the days will then be 11, 9, 7, 5, 3.

The days in the column at the left of the compartment on Plate XXXI are Kan, Cib, Lamat, Ahau, and Eb. Hunting out the years in the manner heretofore described, we find them to be as follows:

In order to show the position of these groups in the series of years, and how they stand in reference to each other^ I give here a table (XVI) covering one entire grand cycle, and including the last cycle of the pre-