The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . of theolder sources at my command mentions the ruins at Pucaraor any ruin resembling it. It is true that Pucara lies awayfrom the line of travel from the southern to the northwest-em end of the Island, and this may be the reason also whyMr. Squier makes no mention of the place; but the mis-sionaries of the seventeenth century might be expected tohave at least heard of Pucara! Nevertheless, neitherEamos, nor Cobo, nor Calancha, all of whom visited theIsland, allude to the site, whereas on other ruins they arevery explicit.^^ What the object of th
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . of theolder sources at my command mentions the ruins at Pucaraor any ruin resembling it. It is true that Pucara lies awayfrom the line of travel from the southern to the northwest-em end of the Island, and this may be the reason also whyMr. Squier makes no mention of the place; but the mis-sionaries of the seventeenth century might be expected tohave at least heard of Pucara! Nevertheless, neitherEamos, nor Cobo, nor Calancha, all of whom visited theIsland, allude to the site, whereas on other ruins they arevery explicit.^^ What the object of the constructions atPucara might have been is, therefore, a matter of specula-tion. The elaborateness displayed in several of the andenesindicates that some importance was placed upon thatestablishment, an indication supported also by the exist-ence of ancient trails and dykes. It evidently stood in PQ 0) ^3 Ph _e8 <s < M <D -t= XI a o 5f-l 1^ ,c C S3 t-( 2 .2 3 0) > fcl A. e. ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 203 direct relation to the northwestern clusters of Inca build-ings, and was probably occupied at the same time. On the way to the Inca ruins at Kasapata, the garden ofChalla (23) attracts attention. It is, on a smaller scale, asecond Fountain of the Inca. The few andenes, traversedby a channel filled with limpid water as at Yumani, are evenbetter built than those of the Fountain. There is at theChalla garden a greater number of kenua trees; and abovethe garden, on the slope, stands quite a grove of thesebulky plants. Most of them must be quite old, especiallythe one in the garden of which a photograph is the grove are remains similar to those at Yumani. Ex-cept a channel and most of the andenes, all improvementswere made since the conquest and probably during theeighteenth century. Of buildings there are no traces. Thesame is true of the site called Santa Maria (i), whereruined terraces yielded to us potsherds of the so-calledInca t
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