The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ers withtheir officers found themselves in theworst of plights. There was no foodon Koati and no way of getting outof the Island. At last it became pos-sible to communicate with the shoreand to secure relief. It was at Koa that, about sixtyyears ago, an Indian saw, asleep onrocks in the grotto, a beast resem-bling a cow. The sight so frightened him that he did not venture toawaken the creature, but he saw itnear enough to describe its shape andcolor; and both agree with the de-scription by parties who claim tohave seen the animal at Tiquina andw
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . ers withtheir officers found themselves in theworst of plights. There was no foodon Koati and no way of getting outof the Island. At last it became pos-sible to communicate with the shoreand to secure relief. It was at Koa that, about sixtyyears ago, an Indian saw, asleep onrocks in the grotto, a beast resem-bling a cow. The sight so frightened him that he did not venture toawaken the creature, but he saw itnear enough to describe its shape andcolor; and both agree with the de-scription by parties who claim tohave seen the animal at Tiquina andwithin six feet of the beach. It was in June that we werefinally enabled to visit the smallerislands. The positive orders ofMiguel Garces to have a balsa readyfor us at any time were utterly dis-obeyed, by his own manager of theproperty as well as by the was only when, through the kind-ness of Garces and of Don Abel Men-dez, we obtained a handwheel-boat atPuno, that we were able to make thevoyage. THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA. 03 o o PI Pi Part IIITHE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA FEW, if any, of the present inhabitants of the Island ofTiticaca are direct descendants of the Indians whooccupied it at the time of the conquest. After Pizarro hadestablished himself at Cuzco in the latter part of 1533, hesent, early in December of that year, two Spaniards to recon-noiter the Lake region, of which he had already heard.^The two scouts remained absent forty days and returnedwith the following information: * The two Christians that were sent to see the province ofthe Collao delayed forty days on their journey, from whichthey returned to the city of Cuzco, where the Governor gave him an account and report of everything theyhad learned and seen, as will be related below. The countryof the Collao is distant, and far away from the ocean, somuch so, that the natives inhabiting it have no knowledge ofit (the sea). The land is very high, somewhat level and,besid
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