The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . es some color to thisassertion is, among others, the name of Chachapoyas, ap-plied to a site on the western shore of the Peninsula.®^Several family names of Indians about Copacavana areclearly Quichua, and may even be called specificallyInca, like Inca-Mayta, Sinchi-Roca, and the latter there is conclusive evidence that they are ofInca descent, the original personal names, as was veryoften the case among Indians in Spanish America, havingbeen converted into family appellatives.^^ Hence theexistence of an Inca settlement on that Peninsul
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . es some color to thisassertion is, among others, the name of Chachapoyas, ap-plied to a site on the western shore of the Peninsula.®^Several family names of Indians about Copacavana areclearly Quichua, and may even be called specificallyInca, like Inca-Mayta, Sinchi-Roca, and the latter there is conclusive evidence that they are ofInca descent, the original personal names, as was veryoften the case among Indians in Spanish America, havingbeen converted into family appellatives.^^ Hence theexistence of an Inca settlement on that Peninsula cannot bedoubted. If subsequent researches should confirm thetruth of the statement, made by Cobo and contemporaries,that the very narrow neck of land, separating at Yunguyuthe northwestern body of the Lake from the Lagune ofUina-Marca, was traversed by a wall constructed by theInca (and this is not impossible),^^ that wall barred ac-cess to the Peninsula from the mainland and made of itand of the two Islands a completely secluded cluster in. s I •^ 3 aao
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