The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . . f VI^/tH ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 183 fortunately, the Indians penetrated into it from above,causing the roof to fall in, as well as through the door. It isprobably rifled of everything, and ravaged, through caving-in as well as by vegetation, which has converted the neatlittle structure into a blooming bush with ugly thorns. Wesaw that it would be unprofitable to excavate there, andlimited ourselves to measurements. The Indians, as al-ready stated, affirm that the building is Inca. We couldnot learn of any other structure of th
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . . f VI^/tH ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 183 fortunately, the Indians penetrated into it from above,causing the roof to fall in, as well as through the door. It isprobably rifled of everything, and ravaged, through caving-in as well as by vegetation, which has converted the neatlittle structure into a blooming bush with ugly thorns. Wesaw that it would be unprofitable to excavate there, andlimited ourselves to measurements. The Indians, as al-ready stated, affirm that the building is Inca. We couldnot learn of any other structure of the kind in that to Challa and proceeding northwestwardalong the Lake to the garden of Challa with its terraces ofInca origin, thence to Kasapata past the ruined andenes ofSanta Maria, we find no clear vestiges of the ChuUpa onour path. In continuation of the isthmus on which the Incaruins of Kasapata stand, rises, as its northerly prolonga-tion, the height of Llaq-aylli (f) which terminates in thesharp point of Ye-Jachi (17).
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