Now, let us follow around this outer circle comparing it with our calendar ([Table I]), or list of days ([Table II]), which, as before stated, are for the Cauac year only.
As this is a Cauac year, we must commence with the Cauac character No. 31, on the right border. Immediately to the left of this character and almost in contact with it we see a single small dot. We take for granted that this denotes 1 and that we are to begin with 1 Cauac. This corresponds with the first day of the first month, that is, the top number of the left-hand column of numbers in [Table I] or the first day in [Table II]. Turning to the plate we run up the line of dots to the character for Chuen (No. 32); immediately to the left of this we see two little bars and three dots
or 13.
Turning again to our table and running down the column of the first month to the number 13 we find that it is Chuen, which is followed by 1 Eb. Turning again to the plate we observe that the character immediately above Chuen is Eb., and that it has adjoining it below a single dot, or 1. Running from thence down the line of dots toward the center we reach Kan, immediately above which is the character for 13. Turning again to our table and starting with the 1 opposite Eb and running to the bottom of the column which ends with 7 and passing to 8 at the top of the second column, and running down this to 13, or following down our list of days ([Table II]), we find it to be Kan, which is followed by 1 Chicchan. On the plate we see the character for Chicchan (No. 35) immediately above that of Kan (No. 34), with a single small dot touching it above. Running from this upward along the row of large dots toward the outer corner we next reach the character for Caban (No. 36), adjoining which we see the numeral character for 13.
Running our eye down the second column of the table, from 1 opposite Chicchan to 13, we find it is opposite Caban, thus agreeing with what we find in the plate.
This will enable the reader to follow up the names and numbers on the table as I will now give them from Caban (No. 36), in the manner above shown, remembering that the movement on the plate is around the circle toward the left, that is, up the right side, toward the left on the top, down the left side, &c., and that, on the tables, after one column is completed we take the next to the right.
From Caban (No. 36) we go next to Ezanab No. 37 (the single dot is here effaced); then down the row of dots to Oc, No. 38, over which is the numeral for 13; then to Chuen, No. 39, immediately to the left (the single dot is dimly outlined immediately above it); then up the row of large dots to Akbal No. 40 (the numeral character for 13 is immediately to the right); then to Kan No. 1, immediately to the left (the single dot adjoins it on the right); then to the left along the border row of dots to Cib No. 2, in the upper left-hand corner, immediately under which we find the numeral character for 13.