The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . from the utilitarian standpoint ofhis wants, hopes and fears. The Aymara Indian calls each * * Nevado, or snowy peak, Achachila; that is, grandfather. They apply this termto every prominent feature; still the importance of the Acha-chila is not always in proportion to its size. While on theslopes of Illimani, I also heard the Indians of Llujo call themountain Uyu-iri, feeder or fosterer of their homes. Theword Illimani itself is a corruption of Hila-umani—he who has much water, derived from the fact, that thewater courses useful to them descend
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . from the utilitarian standpoint ofhis wants, hopes and fears. The Aymara Indian calls each * * Nevado, or snowy peak, Achachila; that is, grandfather. They apply this termto every prominent feature; still the importance of the Acha-chila is not always in proportion to its size. While on theslopes of Illimani, I also heard the Indians of Llujo call themountain Uyu-iri, feeder or fosterer of their homes. Theword Illimani itself is a corruption of Hila-umani—he who has much water, derived from the fact, that thewater courses useful to them descend from that mountain,and that precipitation is most abundant along its the Island of Titicaca, the great Illampu or Hauko-Uma (white water) is the most prominent, as it almost di-rectly faces the Island, and therefore is more particularlyknown to the Islanders. Nevertheless, my inquiries touchingthe name of it (inquiries made for the purpose of elicitingsome information about tales or legends, possibly extant). w ?73 M O W 03 o ^ H. THE BASIN OF LAKE TITICACA 9 were quite as often answered by Illimani also; while totlieotherpeakSj the term Kunu-Kollu (snow-height) wasindiscriminately applied. The Indian of the Island consid-ers such conspicuous landmarks as fetishes, chiefly origi-nators of cold and angry blasts. Lake Titicaca does not derive its principal water supplyfrom the great Bolivian chain. Only one of its maintributaries, the Rio de Achacache, descends directlyfrom the Cordillera Real. The Suchez has its headwatersin Peru (among the Andes of Carabaya); also the Ramis,in the narrow defile at the foot of the Cordillera of Vil-canota, near the line dividing the Department of Puno fromthat of Cuzco;^^ and the other streams rise either in therange dividing the basin of Titicaca from the Pacific slope,or south of the Lake. The drain of the Cordillera of Bolivia is chiefly towardthe Atlantic, and not toward the Pacific slope. Lake Titi-caca lies at the foot of that
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