The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . empted to confederate withthat of Arequipa to destroy the Span-iards, and that, as the one of Are-quipa (Misti) replied he could notenter into the agreement since he wasa Christian and named Saint Francis,the volcano of Omate undertook italone. Historia del Colegio de laCompania de Jesus de Arequipa yEeventazon del Volcan de Omate,MSS. at National Archives at Lima,1600, Vol. XXI, fol. 24: Mataronlos carneros gallinas y conejos de latierra que tenian y hizieron grandesvanquetes vailes y vorracheras vistien-dose para esto de Colorado y aun sedijo
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . empted to confederate withthat of Arequipa to destroy the Span-iards, and that, as the one of Are-quipa (Misti) replied he could notenter into the agreement since he wasa Christian and named Saint Francis,the volcano of Omate undertook italone. Historia del Colegio de laCompania de Jesus de Arequipa yEeventazon del Volcan de Omate,MSS. at National Archives at Lima,1600, Vol. XXI, fol. 24: Mataronlos carneros gallinas y conejos de latierra que tenian y hizieron grandesvanquetes vailes y vorracheras vistien-dose para esto de Colorado y aun sedijo que algunos hechiceros sacrifica-ron carneros al Volcan porque no loshundiese y que hablaron con el de-monio que les dezia las tempestadesque aula de auer y como el volcan deomate se aula querido concertar conel de areqa para destruir 4 los espano-les y que como el de areqa respondiessequel no podia venir en ello por serxpano y Uamarse S: Franco quel deOmate solo se esfor^aua por salir coneste yntento. THE ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLANDOF TITICACA. ok -4-> ?73 M ^ h-1 ^ M 3 M c^ -i Paet IV THE ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLANDOF TITICACA THE Indians who inhabit the Island divide the ruinsinto two classes, one of which they call Chullpa, and theother Inca. They assign to each class a different origin. As stated in the preceding chapter, traditions preservedby writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries men-tion two distinct stocks as occupants previous to advent ofthe Spaniards. Hence the classification by the Indians ofto-day is not an imaginary one. Geographical distribution of the ruins on Titicaca is bestunderstood by means of the annexed map. The survey wasmade by me for the purpose of illustrating this do not pretend, however, to have indicated all the ancientremains extant. There must be more, especially of theclass called Chullpa, but their reduced size and utter decayrender it difficult to trace them. Again the artificial ter-races, or andenes (in Aymara
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