---|
| 25 | 1 | 5. Kan. | 1 | 8 | 12. Chuen. |
| 26 | 2 | 6. Chicchan. | 2 | 9 | 13. Eb. |
| 27 | 3 | 7. Quimi. | 3 | 10 | 1. Ben. |
| 28 | 4 | 8. Manik. | 4 | 11 | 2. Gix. |
| 29 | 5 | 9. Lamat. | 5 | 12 | 3. Men. |
| 30 | 6 | 10. Muluc. | 6 | 13 | 4. Quin. |
| 31 | 7 | 11. Oc. | 7 | 14 | 5. Caban. |

|--------------|------------------|
| Days of | Days of |
| Sept. | Zip. | the Week. |
|-------|------|------------------|
| 8 | 15 | 6. Edznab. |
| 9 | 16 | 7. Cauac. |
| 10 | 17 | 8. Ajau. |
| 11 | 18 | 9. Ymix. |
|-------|------|------------------|

Thus the 11th of September was the 18th of Zip, which does fall on 9
Ymix, and accords with the date given in the MS. This date appears,
therefore, to have been very correct.

_Of the Origin of this Cycle._

The origin and use of this species of age, epoch, or cycle, and (the
time) when it commenced, are not known. Neither the Mexican nor
Toltecan authors, nor those who corrected the chronological system for
the computation of time, ever used it, nor had their writers any
knowledge of its existence. The few and incomplete manuscripts which
exist in this peninsula make no mention of it; so that there is neither
record nor even conjecture to guide us, unless there be something on
the subject in the work written by Don Cristobal Antonio Xiu, son of
the King of Mani, by order of the then government, which, according to
the padre Cogolludo, existed in his time, and some allege to be even
yet extant.

It appears only that the Chevalier Boturini had some knowledge, though
imperfect, of that mode of reckoning time; inasmuch as Don Mariano
Veytia, in the second chapter of his "Historia Antigua de Mexico,"
transcribes literally the explanation which Boturini gives at page 122
of the work which he published under the title of "Idea of a New
History of North America," and says, "that the Mexican Indians, when
they reckoned in their calendar the first sign of their indiction under
number 1, as, for instance, Ce Tecpatl (1 Tecpatl), it was understood
that it was (so placed) only one time in every four cycles, because
they spoke then of the initial characters of each cycle; and thus,
according t