The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . eS P^ i .^ > § X ^ J O H ;:i <?J 1 cu (B cc (S t» eS. THE RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF KOATI 271 for smoking, I am unable to surmise. In regard to smokingamong the aborigines before the conquest, I find the follow-ing in the edition of the work of Ramos arranged by FatherSans: * It is true that the Incas were very fond of agricul-ture, and at Airaguanca, a village of Omasuyos, an oldIndian showed me a plant called Topasaire, the leaves ofwhich the Indians use like tobacco, assuring me that theIncas had caused it to be brought from a great distan
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . eS P^ i .^ > § X ^ J O H ;:i <?J 1 cu (B cc (S t» eS. THE RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF KOATI 271 for smoking, I am unable to surmise. In regard to smokingamong the aborigines before the conquest, I find the follow-ing in the edition of the work of Ramos arranged by FatherSans: * It is true that the Incas were very fond of agricul-ture, and at Airaguanca, a village of Omasuyos, an oldIndian showed me a plant called Topasaire, the leaves ofwhich the Indians use like tobacco, assuring me that theIncas had caused it to be brought from a great passage, however, may be from the pen of the editor,hence modern,^^ as Calancha has no reference to it. Thetopasaire is a species of wild tobacco, for tobacco in Qui-chua is sayri, and was known in Peru before the con-quest as a medicinal plant.^^ Sayri was taken in the formof powder (snuff) to free the head.^^ Peru has at leastthree varieties of indigenous tobacco, according to Rai-mondi,^° but all three grow in warmer climates. Of smok-ing I find no trace as yet, and still the stone objects f
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