His manuscript of five or six folios, in the Tzendal tongue, came into the possession of Nunez de la Vega, Bishop of Chiapas, about 1690, and later into the hands of Don Ramon Ondonez y Aguiar, where it was seen by Dr.Paul Felix Cabrera, about 1790.

What has become of it is not known.
No complete translation of it was made; and the extracts or abstracts given by the authors just named are most unsatisfactory, and disfigured by ignorance and prejudice.

None of them, probably, was familiar with the Tzendal tongue, especially in its ancient form.

What they tell us runs as follows:-- At some indefinitely remote epoch, Votan came from the far East.

He was sent by God to divide out and assign to the different races of men the earth on which they dwell, and to give to each its own language.