The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . found thefoundations of another group. Two rooms or halls came tolight, one of which may have been originally connected withthe western annex, and the other is an approximate rectanglemeasuring forty-seven by twenty feet, with walls of un-equal thickness. This apartment, or building, stands onthe western rim of the esplanade and is connected with theterrace north of it by a wall forty-eight feet long and abouttwo feet thick. Here we found two more grinding slabsand potsherds with handsome designs, but not as many asin the previous excavations. T
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . found thefoundations of another group. Two rooms or halls came tolight, one of which may have been originally connected withthe western annex, and the other is an approximate rectanglemeasuring forty-seven by twenty feet, with walls of un-equal thickness. This apartment, or building, stands onthe western rim of the esplanade and is connected with theterrace north of it by a wall forty-eight feet long and abouttwo feet thick. Here we found two more grinding slabsand potsherds with handsome designs, but not as many asin the previous excavations. The most diligent probing and digging on the esplanadedid not reveal more until we came to the northeastern cor-ner. There a wall was uncovered which may have originallyrun along the whole eastern border of the plateau. Pot-sherds, some with beautiful designs, were scattered through Bf .^ & ? ^ 3 5 «> > «G 1^ a -^^ e^ X i^j^ a> CO i; <l ^ J f^ fl^ c3 a a -^ ;h ^ O. ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 211 the soil. Thirty-six feet south of the rocks which terminatethe lowest terrace of Llaq-aylli (4) our men found whatseemed to be another grave. Its upper rim was struck at adepth of twenty-one inches, and over it was a rude slabthirty-four by eighteen inches, and four inches thick. Un-derneath this cover was earth containing two large bones,then a mixture of earth and stone, more bones, and coarsesherds. Further digging proved that it was not a grave,but a tank, suggestive of a bath. We laid open a rectan-gular sink, twenty-one inches beneath the surface, fromthirty-six to forty inches deep, eight feet long inside, twofeet wide at the northern and nineteen inches at the south-em end, lined with a well built wall of stone one foot inaverage thickness. On the eastern side there protrudedfrom this wall, at two feet below its rim, two stepping-stones. The floor was of stone-flags, a foot thick on anaverage, and beneath them nothing but soil. What
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