The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . (c). Theiraggregate length is fifty-eight feet, their width could not obtain any information concerning thesestructures; the Indians did not even have a name for thesites. All they said was, that they were Inca. Not a pot-sherd was found about them and excavations proved fruit-less. Indians from the Island and from Sampaya had longago rifled both localities, although they claimed to knownothing about them. The ruin which has attracted the attention of visitors toKoati is the one called Inak-Uyu (map, a). Squier calls itPalace of the

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The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . (c). Theiraggregate length is fifty-eight feet, their width could not obtain any information concerning thesestructures; the Indians did not even have a name for thesites. All they said was, that they were Inca. Not a pot-sherd was found about them and excavations proved fruit-less. Indians from the Island and from Sampaya had longago rifled both localities, although they claimed to knownothing about them. The ruin which has attracted the attention of visitors toKoati is the one called Inak-Uyu (map, a). Squier calls itPalace of the Virgins of the Sun,^ but believes that itwas a *Temple of the Moon. Wiener does not seem tohave visited the Island, else he could not have written:The monuments of the Island of Koati are in a state ofcomplete destruction.^ Inak-Uyu is, on the contrary,one of the best preserved ancient buildings on the twoIslands. Certain portions are torn down, but the lines ofwalls can everywhere be traced, and the fagades bear, in s M5 W o tJ o Ph c o <5.

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