The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . sarily from thereor from Kasapata. But, from either place, a voyage bybalsa is almost twice as long as from Titicacas easternshores! The most convenient point for embarking wouldhave been the little Bay of Pucara. It is hence possiblethat in view of these frequent voyages the buildings atPucara were erected, for Pucara is as well the natural portfor Koati on Titicaca as the foot of the crest on which thebuildings now called Chicheria stand is the landing-placenearest to Titicaca on the Island of Koati. This frequent intercourse formerly carried
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . sarily from thereor from Kasapata. But, from either place, a voyage bybalsa is almost twice as long as from Titicacas easternshores! The most convenient point for embarking wouldhave been the little Bay of Pucara. It is hence possiblethat in view of these frequent voyages the buildings atPucara were erected, for Pucara is as well the natural portfor Koati on Titicaca as the foot of the crest on which thebuildings now called Chicheria stand is the landing-placenearest to Titicaca on the Island of Koati. This frequent intercourse formerly carried on betweenKoati and Titicaca may enable us to form some idea of theprobable object of those buildings on the latter Island, towhich their present condition affords no clue. The re-semblance between Inak-Uyu and Pilco-Kayma in positionand arrangement, not in size, leads to the inference thatboth may have been shrines dedicated to the Achachilaworship of the peaks of Sorata.^^ The Chicheria, while Plate LXXIIRuins on eastern slope of Koati -n. It. THE RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF KOATI 281 resembling architectural vestiges at Kasapata and prob-ably destined to the same end, hints at the possible purposeof the buildings at Pucara. The latter stood near a land-ing-place on Titicaca, for the frequent communicationsfrom one to the other Island. The number of residents on Koati during the time theIncas maintained their establishments there was certainlygreater than it is to-day. The buildings, admitting thatInak-Uyu had two stories, may have contained as manyas two hundred permanent occupants.^^ If, as is stated bysome, most of these attendants were females, the numbermay have been even somewhat greater. For an abode ofsecluded women, Koati, especially the site of Inak-Uyu, wasvery well chosen. The long wall that ran along the crestbarred access, and the little ruin {d, on map) served as alookout; the Chicheria, and especially the Red Head, cov-ered a vast extent of horizon. Distance from t
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